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
An amazing site and very helpful in the identifiation of a moth I'd never seen before. Turns out to be common, but yesterday (02/09/2013) the first time in my 62 years I'd seen a Canary Shouldered Thorn. What an amazing moth. And this site has piqued my interest, so I'll be looking out for more...
Thanks for such a clear site and so easy to use. I've tried many hoping to identify what I now know is a Jersey Tiger Moth; I have seen 2 in the last few days (SE London). I couldn't locate it on any site until I put in the 3 key colours on yours and it worked!
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,.
Really useful site thank you. Just identified a privet hawk moth using your beginners guide, twenty most common species section. Great photos.
A great, generous site dedicated to an under-loved and dwindling species