About the UKMoths Website
Welcome to UKMoths, your online guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland. UKMoths has been providing identification help and information about Britain's moths for over 15 years.
What's UKMoths all about?
Traditionally, moth fieldguides have concentrated on the so-called "macro-moths", of which there are around 800 regular species. To study all of Britain's species incuding the often very interesting microlepidoptera, requires an expensive library of reference material.
The ultimate idea of the site was to illustrate as many species of British moths as possible and to provide this information in an accessible format. Over 2500 species have been recorded in the British Isles, and currently 2286 of these are illustrated, featuring 7426 photographs.
If you have good quality photos of British moths or lifecycle stages not yet featured on UKMoths and would like to contribute, please check the guidelines for contributors.
What UKMoths visitors are saying
A great, generous site dedicated to an under-loved and dwindling species
Brilliant site. It helps me tremendously with my identifications. Am I right in thinking you are fairly local to me. I am in South Lakeland. Please keep up the good work. All the best, bryan
Great site. I am only just getting interested in British moths and have been a bit lost trying to get some basic knowledge, especially on identification. This site is simple, very easy to use, effective and readily accessible. Excellent.
Very useful site,I have found out what moth I have,found as a crystalist I have keep it in a safe place till it formed to this beautiful moth.It as not yet tried to fly yet.Going to search sites to find if I can find out how long it will take for it to fly,.
Hi. Just wanted to say thanks for helping me identify an Angle Shades moth that I saw today. I went on to the Butterfly Conservation site, ( I am a member ), but couldn't find it. Your site was great. Best wishes, Mark