There are two kinds of peppered moths. OOne is white with a bunch of black spots on it. This kind lives in forests where trees are white baked, and have a bunch of lichen on them. The moths so they dion't get eaten, hid and blend inn with the trees. Their wings look like lichen so they are fine most of the time. But, they are found in Europe. In fact when the humans got their first real glimpse at the moths they were about to start the Industrial Revolution. So as the air became more and more polluted, the tree on white peppered moths hide on, starts to turn black. This becomes a huge problem because to survive, the moths needed the trees. When it turned a darker color, and when the moths sat there on the tree, they stuck out tlike sore thumbs. They could have gotten wiped out. One more species out of the world's wonderful rotation. That never happened because one of the peppered moths had a genetic mutation in which turned the wings darker. This created the second kind of peppered moth. This one had darker wings and could hide on trees that were darkened. So the species of peppered moths went on.
   Of course, Europe realised what had happened and started to stop polluting the air so much, but most of the trees couldn't be changed back in to white trees.



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