The spruce budworm is a known pest for Douglas fir trees. The hatching of this insect's larvae is ...

The spruce budworm is a known pest for Douglas fir trees. The hatching of this insect's larvae is triggered by the warmer temperatures in the early spring, while the development of fir trees is timed by amount of available light and day length. Recently, winters in a given area have become warmer, perhaps as a result of the warming trend. We would likely expect that with the larvae hatching ________ in the year,
the development of fir trees would ________, and the damage caused by spruce budworms infestations would ________.
A) earlier; be unchanged; decrease
B) later; be unchanged; decrease
C) earlier; start earlier in the year; increase
D) earlier; be unchanged; increase
E) earlier; start later in the year; increase