UKMoths | Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland

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 2276 of these are illustrated, featuring 7374 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 in the last few days SE London I couldn't locate it on any site until I put in the key colours...
Sandra

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...
Sophie

Hi Ian I have used this site a few times and have found it to be most useful Thanks Ian Hardy...
Ian Hardy

Great site I am only just getting interested in British moths and have been a bit lost trying to get some basic knowledge especially on identification This site is simple very easy to use effective and readily accessible Excellent...
Malcolm Herbert

Wow It is such a shock when a site that you use every day changes and you were not expecting it Just wanted to say well done for putting such a huge amount of work in - only looked at the Oak Eggar so far but it was easy to...
jo poland