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
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!!!
I like your update. I've been using this site for years and it looks great now. Thanks you for providing this - I point people to ukmoths to find out more stuff about moths.
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
i collect records of moths seen in my garden. UK MOTHS is an essential identification aid i use in conjunction with good reference books to verify difficult species. Many thanks for that.
This website is great! Every time I come across a moth, I always find it here, even if sometimes by the vaguest keywords possible. I love it!