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
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!
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
Hi Ian, I have used this site a few times and have found it to be most useful. Thanks Ian Hardy
An excellent site and a friendly, helpful and informative Facebook account too. Thank you.
A most interesting site to browse as well as enabling me to identify moths i have taken photos of.