Which best describes this behavior? it is beneficial only to the males that do not fertilize eggs. it is beneficial only to the female workers that are not fertilized. it is beneficial to each one of the individual colony members. it is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.

Option D, It is the remains of an organism that lived in a narrow geographic area

Explanation:

Animals or plants that live in a specific time span of earth and are preserved beneath the earth as fossils are known as index fossils. Generally, the time span of their burial is quite small or narrow. Such fossils has following characteristics

a)Distinctive

b)Easy recognizable

c)Abundant

d)Wide range of geographic distribution

e)Short range of time distribution.  

Because of their distinctiveness, these fossils form the basis of defining boundaries in the geologic time scale and correlation of strata.

Hence, option D is correct