peppered moth

noun

peppered moth

noun

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A light-coloured species of night-flying moth, Biston betularia.

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, the common, light-coloured peppered moth stood out in the soot-covered landscape around coal plants.2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:

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