The first national moth distribution maps for 30 years have been published by Moths Count in this new book, which sold out the first print run in just a few weeks! Fortunately it’s now been reprinted and is available again. Check out the details on the Moths Count website. Representing over 11 million records of [...]

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The new Moths and Butterflies  of Britain and Ireland app for the iPhone platform is now available!  The app, developed by Birdguides Ltd in conjunction with A&C Black and UKMoths is based on Chris Manley’s “British Moths and Butterflies – a photographic guide“, and features additional content from the UKMoths website and distribution maps from [...]

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Hi everyone, It’s that time  of the year when the Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillars are out and about in numbers. At this time of year they’re often found wandering around looking for somewhere to pupate, or are in peoples’ gardens munching away at their Fuschias! There are two forms – the more typical brown form, and [...]

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Sorry all, I was doing some database maintenance work this evening (8 June) and I managed to break the site so that none of the species pages, search routines or systematic lists were working. Apologies to all those who were affected, and thanks for everyone for sending me photos of species apparently not featured (which [...]

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This year, National Moth Night will be held on the 15th May and will celebrate Moths and Bats. Read more at national-moth-night

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Hi Everyone, Welcome to the new UKMoths News and Information service, launched to coincide with the site reaching 2000 moth species online! The species uploaded to reach that magical 2000 figure was Udea alpinalis, contributed by Martin Bishop:

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