Pollution drives natural selection Throughout the industrial revolution, people noticed that white moths became much rarer while black moths became much more common. Bernard Kettlewell, a research ...

Ailanthus webworm moths are beneficial insects that pollinate many species of flowers. Its larval stage devours leaves of the invasive tree-of-heaven.

The Peppered moth, which changed its colour from white to black in areas of Britain with heavy pollution, is now reverting to its original appearance.

Besides sporting brighter colors and patterns than the neutral tones of humble moths that flock to porchlights, hummingbird ...

Scientists unravel details of the famous mutation that turned moths black during the industrial revolution.

White Satin Moths appear all white except for the body, which looks like it has black bands and are about 1 1/2 inches wide at full wing span.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology will host its annual Moth Night on Saturday, July 12 from 7 to 11 at its facility in Room ...

Both Achemon and white-lined sphinx moths have enormous ranges, spanning most of the North American continent. High abundance and a large geographic range usually indicate that the species is secure.

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 ...

To Colin Crowley’s surprise, he learned from a member of the organization that he had documented the first sighting in Northern Nevada of a rare Black Witch or Ascalapha odorate species of moths.

The peppered moth was the most diagrammatic example of the phenomenon of industrial melanism that came to be recognised in industrial and smoke-blackened parts of England in the mid-nineteenth ...