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 2254 of these are illustrated, featuring 7211 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.

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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...
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Thank you for this excellent site I saw a beautiful blue-green moth a couple of nights ago here in Pant Glas Gwynedd of a type I had never seen in enough detail before to identify As I now know having found it on your site it was a Light Emerald...
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