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
Just found your very lovely website, which I am going to be coming back to lots, now that my interest in moths is blossoming.
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...
Really useful site thank you. Just identified a privet hawk moth using your beginners guide, twenty most common species section. Great photos.
This site is really interesting, and helpful! For a few years I've seen dozens of these little purple moths in my garden and none of my wildlife books could help me identify it. It turned out to be Pyrausta purpuralis, mystery solved!!!
A great, generous site dedicated to an under-loved and dwindling species