There are at least two cases when lichens become unwitting accomplices in damaging trees. One involves the hemlock looper moth, which is ... that grows farther north than any true plants.

He was examining specimens of twirler moths from the North American moth family Gelechiidae ... two parasites, a lichen, and a reef fish discovered near a nature preserve that Obama expanded.

In “one of the most iconic examples of evolution,” researchers have found peppered moths adapted to air pollution from the Industrial Revolution, and again as clean air laws in the UK allowed lichen ...