In this section, you have short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
Passage:
To eat and not be eaten - that’s the imperative of a caterpillar’s existence. The leaf roller reduces its risks of being picked off by predators by silking together a temporary shelter in which to feed and rest. Adopting a different line of defense, the jelly slug extrudes a sticky translucent coating that may foul the mouth-parts of marauding ants. For its part, the aquatic larva, by its watery element, fashions a portable hideout from fragments of aquatic leaves. Cutting a serpentine trail as it feeds on tender young leaves, the minute citrus leaf miner spends its entire larval life inside its host plant, thus keeping its appetizing body safely under wraps.
Which one of the following caterpillars produces a sticky covering ?
- ALeaf roller
- BJelly slug
- CAquatic larva
- DCitrus leaf miner
Explanation
The passage states that the jelly slug 'extrudes a sticky translucent coating.' The leaf roller makes a silken shelter, the aquatic larva a hideout of leaf fragments, and the leaf miner tunnels inside leaves; none produces a sticky covering. Hence (b) is correct.