Lemon+Peppered+Moths

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Question: How does a change in forest color affect the population of lemon-peppered moths?

Hypothesis: If a bird is eating lemon peppered moths in a dark and light forest, then the population of the opposite color moth will decrease depending on which forest it's in because a certain color moth will stand out more in it's opposite color forest.

IV--> The change in forest color (Dark and Light) DV--> Population of Lemon Peppered Moths Constants--> The bird has 1 minute for both forests.

DSET: My claim is that if a bird is eating lemon peppered moths in a dark and light forest, then the population of the opposite color moth will decrease depending on which forest it's in because a certain color moth will stand out more in it's opposite color forest because there are black moths and light moths. This is proven by my graphs, where you can see that in the dark forest, there are more black moths than white moths, with there being 64% black and 34% white. And in light forest chart, there are 71% white moths and 29% black moths. This probably happened because the moths can camouflage better in the forest of their same color. Without their camouflage, it would be hard for the moth to survive for a long time, and then it wouldn't have enough time to reproduce. This is an example of natural selection. Natural selection is t he process where organisms better adapted to their environment and tend to survive and produce more offspring.This is exactly what happened here in this experiment. While one moth of the opposite color of it's forest were to decrease in population, the moth with the SAME color as the forest would go through natural selection. I would better adapt to it's environment using it's camouflage. And so with more of it's species around, they could create more offspring, thus causing it's population to increase. So as you can see, the lemon peppered moths used natural selection and their ability to camouflage with their surroundings to survive.

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