Peppered Moth - Biston betularia f. typica (top view)
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Peppered Moth - Biston betularia f. typica (top view)
Image: © Rob Farrow Taken: 17 Jul 2013
Today's moth visitor to our offices in Potters Bar is quite a little celebrity, for the reasons given in the shared description below. This particular specimen is the "original" non-melanistic variant known as "typica" which dipped hugely in numbers during the sootiest days of our industrial past, but are now back to being common. This is a top view showing the speckled markings - for a front view, see Image]
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Image Location
Latitude
51.694227
Longitude
-0.177092