Although the peppered moth has been the poster child of Darwinian ... scientist questioned whether birds were really the agents selecting between the light– and dark-colored moths, which rest on light ...

Get your class to predict which colour of peppered moth might be better camouflaged ... 4. If a light-coloured moth lands on the dark tree trunk set it aside. It’s been eaten by a bird! The same goes ...

In the former study, Ilik Saccheri of the University of Liverpool, U.K., and colleagues crossed light- and dark-color moths and mapped their genetic differences. From a genetic sequence of 400,000 ...

an insect native to Europe that once had light gray wings with dark dots. The peppered moth frequently camouflaged itself against tree bark, which, until the Second Industrial Revolution ...

In the peppered moth ... deposits caused the tree bark to appear darker. Light coloured moths were no longer camouflaged and were more likely to be eaten by birds. The dark moths were now better ...