Question

Study the editorial cartoon How Fungal Bands Eliminate Asian Longhorned Beetles . . . by Don Landgren Jr. 3 mushrooms are in a band titled "The Fun Guys" and are playing music on a tree branch. Next to them is a beetle holding its ears, saying "What is that awful racket?" Above them is the caption What is the cartoonist's purpose in this cartoon? to convince people that fungal bands are dangerous for beetles to convince people that beetles are damaging to trees to make people laugh at a play on words to make people believe that longhorn beetles hate fungi

Answer 1

To make people laugh at a play on words.

Answer 2

To make people laugh at a play on words.