The peppered moth is found throughout Eurasia and North America and can be either white or black. When black and white morphs breed, their offspring are also either black or white (rather than ...

A few days ago in the garden, I spotted a small but very attractive insect. It was slim, around three quarters of an inch long and had a striking orange and black pattern that was hard to miss. I ...

And it was indeed an early discovery; black moths, strikingly different from the insect's usual mottled white, were first spotted in 1848 - 10 years before the concept of natural selection was ...

The typical f. betularia is usually white speckled with varying degrees of black. There is an all-black form, f. carbonaria, and an intermediate form, f. insularia, which is, surprisingly, not ...

Heredity - The peppered moth and industrial melanism: ... Evolution in black and white: genetic control of pigment patterns in Drosophila. Trends Genet 19: 495–504. CAS Google Scholar ...