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 2285 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
Great website and the top twenty moths ID is a great idea it helped me and my sons identify an angle shades we found. Many thanks!
Dear colleagues, I am here by chance (as a hydrobiologist I checked some info for water larvae) but I can't leave these very interesting pages. I am delighted with your site! Many thanks for your excellent job! LN
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...
Simply want to say how useful this guide is for an amateur like me. Ants are my speciality but Lepidoptera are so lovely and, by comparison, a lot easier to identify!
Thanks for such an easy to use and informative site. Had never seen a Jersey Tiger in my SE London garden before.