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
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...
Hi, What a great site you have, your keyword search is brilliant and allowed me to quickly identify the moth I found in my garden today. He was a friendly fellow, I picked him up to move him away from my dog who'll eat anything that moves. He didn't want to get off me, even climbing back on my shoe...
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.
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
A most interesting site to browse as well as enabling me to identify moths i have taken photos of.