Butterflies laying their eggs on milkweed plants occurs at what level of the biosphere hierarchy?
a.
ecosystem
b.
biome
c.
population
d.
community
Answers
d. community.
A community can be defined as the interactive growth of two or more species that are there in a same geographical area and at a definite time.
The milkweed plants help in providing nectar and space to the butterflies.
Alternately, butterflies pollinate them which is useful for their reproduction process.
Hence, they help each other within the same geographical area that comes under a community level within the biosphere hierarchy.
Butterflies laying their eggs on milkweed plants occurs at community level of the biosphere hierarchy. Hence Community is the correct answer to the given question.
Community in biological terms means that the interaction of various species of organisms in different level of the organisation. For as an example if we concider the forest, the trees the animals the insect all together constitute an ecosystem which is living all together.