If you're seeing moths around your house, it's important to identify what type it is before you start trying to treat the ...

Peppered moths and copycat butterflies owe their wing color-changing abilities to a single gene, two independent studies suggest. “This begins to unravel exactly what the original mutation was that ...

(CN) – Moths that have evolved to be a paler color are less likely to be eaten than the darker moths that have adapted to air pollution, a British study found. In “one of the most iconic examples of ...

Light- and dark-colored peppered moths. The black variety is thought to have evolved to camouflage moths on sooty surfaces during the Industrial Revolution. Wikimedia Commons Want to learn more about ...

More than 100 species of moths became darker to blend in with pollution during Britain’s industrial revolution, but did these different moth species all rely on the same gene to adapt? Two color ...

In his otherwise excellent article, Jaap de Roode unwittingly perpetuates some more myths about the peppered moth (8 December 2007, p 46), and in particular about Bernard Kettlewell’s classic ...

In 1896, J.W. Tutt noted that typicals were well camouflaged against the light-colored lichens that grow on tree trunks in unpolluted woodlands; but in woodlands where industrial pollution has killed ...

As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the pleasant flutter of butterflies in your garden during the day. And perhaps if you’ve left a porch light on during the night, you will ...

“Of Moths and Men” can serve as an elegant introduction to the method of science and the ways of scientists. Judith Hooper tells the intricate tale of how a British scientist’s supposed “proof” of ...

The rise of dark forms of many species of moth in heavily polluted areas of 19th and 20th century Britain, known as industrial melanism, was a highly visible response to environmental change. But did ...