The typical form of the peppered moth (Biston betularia) has light-coloured wings speckled with small dark spots, camouflage well-suited to hiding from predatory birds on the bark of birch trees ...

Unlike their flamboyant butterfly relatives, moths have a reputation for being drab and dull. But research shows that these creatures are shiny and colourful under the right light 1. The wings of ...

Running the activity. 1. Variation in one species Use the PowerPoint images of peppered moth specimens to illustrate the range of variation (the differences between individuals) possible within a ...

In her book, Of Moths and Men, Hooper suggests that the (now deceased) scientist involved in these studies may have actually perpetrated an outright fraud in order to "prove" that the rise of the ...

Adaptive colour change and background choice behaviour in peppered moth caterpillars is mediated by extraocular photoreception. Communications Biology , 2019; 2 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0502-7 ...

In other words, by keeping a bright light source at their backs, moths are able to orient themselves and navigate, even in low-light conditions. Meet the sphinx moths , stars of the evening garden.

In the early 1950s, British physician and amateur moth-collector Bernard Kettlewell released light and dark peppered moths onto nearby tree trunks and watched as birds ate the less camouflaged ones.

If you care about the environment, you should care about moths. “Without them, we would disappear from this planet in short order,” says Doug Tallamy, entomologist and author of several books ...

COSHOCTON − The new interactive artwork MOTH // LIGHT by Peter J. Wolfgang has been installed at Clary Gardens. A grand opening for the exhibit will be at 8 p.m. June 21 at the event pavilion at Clary ...