The same gene that enables tropical butterflies to mimic each other's bright and colourful patterning also caused British moths to turn black amid the grime of the industrial revolution, researchers ...

The first tiger moth to evolve had ancestral defenses--this species is the base of the tiger moth evolutionary tree." Five species of Gnophaela are members of the tiger moths, day flying moths that ...

Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

Same gene causes very different adaptive colour traits in moths and tropical butterflies Cortex gene allowed peppered moths to blend in with industrial pollution It also causes variation in the bright ...