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.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday listed the bogbean buck moth as an endangered species. The one-inch, black and white moth lives in only a handful of peat wetlands called ‘fens’ in ...