Open almost any textbook dealing with biological evolution and you’ll probably find photographs of peppered moths resting on tree trunks—illustrating the classic story of natural selection in action.

In his otherwise excellent article, Jaap de Roode unwittingly perpetuates some more myths about the peppered moth (8 December 2007, p 46), and in particular about Bernard Kettlewell’s classic ...

Last week, we posted a letter from scientists Kevin Padian and Alan Gishlick in response to a piece by Jonathan Wells in the September/October issue of Books & Culture, dealing with the notorious ...

In tea gardens (represented as bottom left), tea plants grow as dense branched shrubs, making visual recognition from aerial views difficult. In addition, both color morphs (melanic and grey) are not ...

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Unlike their flamboyant butterfly relatives, moths have a reputation for being drab and dull. But research shows that these creatures are shiny and colourful under the right light 1. The wings of ...