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
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
Totally wonderful site. You have helped me identify species. I am a total novice, but learning fairly rapidly(despite advancing years).If I can't find it in my reference books you are always my first and only choice. Thank you seems far to small a thing to say, but THANK YOU
I just wanted to thank you for this site - I've developed a mild obsession with working out what the moths that fly into the house at night are and this is invaluable. Thank you!
Hi there Ian i found youe site very useful with the way its set up for identification purposes it took me only a few minutes to sucessfully id a moth ive never seen before a{broad hooked moth}lovely specimen.This moth was found on the east coast of Ireland in wicklow on the 20 july 2013. Thank You...
Just found your brilliant resource. For a non-specialist the keywording is great and enabled me to ID the numerous moths that have been appearing over the past three weeks in my home office towards dusk. The Brown House-moth 647 fits the bill exactly.