An entomologist wanted to control a population of fire ants. She found a chemical in introduced it to a fire fire ant colony after a few days only a few fire ants survive which of the following statements best explains why a few fire ants survived

An increase in a predator population would decrease the prey species, since there are more hungry wolves to eat more prey. Look at your food web and find what the wolves are feeding on, this species would decrease. If there’s anything feeding on the wolves, they would increase since now they have a larger population of their prey species.