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
Brilliant site. It helps me tremendously with my identifications. Am I right in thinking you are fairly local to me. I am in South Lakeland. Please keep up the good work. All the best, bryan
Saw an unusual moth sucking nectar from the honeysuckle in my garden - it hovered just like a hummingbird. Found your site and it was so easy to identify it! Funnily enough it was actually called a Hummingbird Hawk Moth - can't say I have ever seen anything like it! (South Lincolnshire)
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
Really useful site thank you. Just identified a privet hawk moth using your beginners guide, twenty most common species section. Great photos.
I considered this a brilliant resource when I used it previously but the update is better still!