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 ...

During the Industrial Revolution in 19th-century England, black moths started appearing - because they blended in better on pollution-darkened tree trunks than did normal, speckled moths.

Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) exhibit a splendid diversity of wing colour patterns, and many species display black and white, or dark and bright, wing colour pattern variants associated ...

In this study, Dr Tian and colleagues found a miRNA located next to cortex, mir-193.The team disrupted mir-193 using a gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 in three deeply diverged lineages of ...

Genetic mutation in the DNA of a single moth means that the mutated gene is passed to all its siblings, and as moths have a very short life cycle, this example of evolution happened very quickly — ...