According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

In Britain and Ireland, the peppered moth is univoltine ( i. e., it has one generation per year ), whilst in south-eastern North America it is bivoltine ( two generations per year ).

The evolution of the peppered moth over the last two hundred years has been studied in detail.

As a result of the relatively simple and easy-to-understand circumstances of the adaptation, the peppered moth has become a common example used in explaining or demonstrating natural selection to laypeople and classroom students.

* Bruce Grant has written several papers on melanism in the peppered moth which are listed on his home page.

Recently, a new infestation of a hazardous moth has effected the population of oak trees in London.

The oak processionary moth has been discovered but the caterpillars of this moth are especially harmful to oak trees because they eat the leaves leaving it vulnerable to other types of diseases.

Also, in the Philippines, a lingering black butterfly or moth in the house is taken to mean that someone in the family has died or will soon die.

Silks are produced by several other insects, but generally only the silk of moth caterpillars has been used for textile manufacturing.

Another example of batesian mimicry is the io moth, ( Automeris io ), which has markings on its wings which resemble an owl's eyes.

File: Chrysiridia rhipheus 23. JPG | Chrysiridia rhipheus, a day-flying Uraniidae moth, has butterfly-like colours

The moth is used as a control for ragwort in countries in which it has been introduced and become a problem, like New Zealand and the western United States.

The release of the cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum within the park has facilitated the biological control of prickly pear.

They are up to 40 mm long and most commonly live in holes in trees formed by beetle and moth larvae or where rot has set in after a twig has broken off.

The moth Coleophora thulea has no other known foodplants.

She has also secretly hidden moth and butterfly pupae in criminal courts in the hope that they will hatch in mid-trial.

Barbara Vine's novel The Chimney Sweeper's Boy has as a central plot device a moth of that name, more formally identified as Epichnopterix plumella, which represents the main character's transformation and identity.

At first, she berates him for his inability to connect to the real world-until she spots his moth tattoo and realizes that it is preventing him from being able to connect so that he never has anyone close to him to get hurt.

: The twirler moth genus invalidly described by Heinemann in or around 1870 has been synonymized with Brachmia.

The small but colorful moth Oecophora bractella has one of its few English populations here, and does not seem to occur much farther northwards.

alt = on the left, a small brown bird with orange eye-ring and a long tail holding a moth, while at its right another similar bird has an open mouth begging for food

Here the moth, on a human hand, is resting but alert, and has jinked the front wings forward to reveal the warning flash.

Among Lepidoptera, apart from some that feed on Pseudotsuga in general ( see there ) the gelechiid moths Chionodes abella and C. periculella as well as the cone scale-eating tortrix moth Cydia illutana have been recorded specifically on P. menziesii.

* Bogong moth ( Agrotis infusa ), known to have been a food source for Southeastern indigenous Australians

Caterpillars of the concealer moth Alabonia geoffrella have been found feeding inside dead blackberry shoots.

Western tanagers are major consumers of western spruce budworms ( Choristoneura occidentalis ), and they have been observed eating Douglas-fir tussock moth larvae ( Orgyia pseudotsugata ).

Caterpillars of the concealer moth, Alabonia geoffrella, have been found feeding inside dead common hazel twigs.

His grant was to study industrial melanism in general, and in particular the peppered moth Biston betularia which had been studied by William Bateson during the 1890s.

Some attempts have been made to develop biological controls in affected areas, using three broom-feeding insects, the psyllid Arytainilla spartiophylla, the beetle Bruchidius villosus, and the moth Leucoptera spartifoliella.

The evolution of the peppered moth over the last two hundred years has been studied in detail.

Much more is known about the subsequent fall in phenotype frequency, as it has been measured by lepidopterists using moth traps.

" The arguments put by Wells have been dismissed by Majerus, Cook and peppered moth researcher Bruce Grant who describes Wells as distorting the picture by selectively omitting or scrambling references in a way that is dishonest.

These include the case-bearer Coleophora pulmonariella which feeds exclusively on P. saccharata, and the moth Ethmia pusiella which has been recorded on P. offininale.

Mexican jumping beans ( also known as Frijoles saltarines ), native to Mexico, are seed pods that have been inhabited by the larva of a small moth, ( Cydia deshaisiana ).

The term bardi grub appears to have originally been used for larvae of the longhorn beetle ( Bardistus cibarius ), but fisherman along the Murray River more often apply the term to the hepialid moth larvae of Trictena and Abantiades.

A town, Bogong, in the Australian state of Victoria has been named after the moth.

In South Africa, cutworms are the most important of the many insect pests that attack the cape gooseberry in seedbeds ; red spiders after plants have been established in the field ; and the potato tuber moth if the cape gooseberry is in the vicinity of potato fields.

One case has even been recorded of a moth emerging out of the cocoon after 10 years.

A species of moth Triphosa dubitata has been observed to overwinter inside Kelmarsh Tunnel.

Horse-chestnuts have been threatened by the leaf-mining moth Cameraria ohridella, whose larvae feed on horse chestnut leaves.

British Columbian introduced species include: common dandelion, ring-necked pheasant, Pacific oyster, brown trout, black slug, European Starling, cowbird, knapweed, bullfrog, purple loosestrife, Scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, European earwig, tent caterpillar, sowbug, gray squirrel, Asian longhorn beetle, English ivy, Fallow Deer, thistle, gorse, Norway rat, crested mynah, and Asian or European gypsy moth.

The cane toad was successfully introduced into New Guinea to control the hawk moth larvae eating sweet potato crops.

This moth with root-mining larvae attacks diffuse and spotted knapweed in parts of the United States where it was introduced to control these plants.

The " rubber vine moth " ( Euclasta whalleyi ) was introduced earlier than the rust ( in 1988 ) but has not proved very effective.

In the episode " Date with Destiny ," he is introduced as a criminal who has been bio-engineering mutant moth creatures with the intention of using them to take over the city.

In some areas, including its northernmost native location, it is seriously threatened by an introduced South American moth Paysandisia archon.

The moth is native to North America, ranging from Canada to Mexico, and is one of the few insect pests introduced from North America into other continents.

It is also known as the asparagus fern caterpillar, and the adult moth is known in the UK ( where it is an introduced species and not known to breed ) as the small mottled willow.