LSAT Question Explanation
PT 108, Section 2, Question 7
Most Strongly SupportedExplanation
This stimulus gives us a bunch of information about how ants interact with other insects. It says that they can swarm and attack insects they don't like, but that they also live symbiotically with some other insects.
One type of insect that ants attack are wasps. And one type of insect that lives harmoniously with ants are riodinid caterpillars.
Wasps hunt and eat riodinid caterpillars, so we can infer that the caterpillars may live with the ants due to the protection they are provided by the ants attacking wasps that enter their colony.
Answer choices
This is not supported. We know the ants eat the secretions, that doesn't mean that they're chemically identical to some other substances that ants eat.
The stimulus never tells us which type of ants are tougher/better at defending their colony compared to other types of ants.
This isn't supported. Riodinid caterpillars are one example of an insect that ants get along with, but there could be others.
Wasps and ants use the riodinid caterpillars as food, but there could be even more creatures that eat the caterpillars as well.
This is supported. If a wasp tries to attack a riodinid caterpillar that lives in an ant colony, the stimulus indicates that the ants will swarm and attack the wasp. This would make the riodinid caterpillars safer from wasps when they live in ant colonies.