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the site gets better and better and is easy to use - I am based in the western Dordogne are there any other 'mothers' near me??

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We had to rescue a beautiful moth from our cats last night and I was curious to discover what it was, your site meant that I could, it was a Garden Tiger!

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I had found what i now know to be an elephant hawk moth, thanks to this site. I then looked further around the site and never knew exactly how beautiful these moths are. I now am hooked and am regularly taking photos although not always great ones!!!
This is an excellent site for novices like me!! Definitely draws you in and makes you realise how precious and beautiful they are.

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Just identified Pammene aurita on the site. Thanks

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hiya meggan the vegan u wee rite this page is great! It totally Rocks!
Mothy club rules!
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i love this page and will show it to all my friends at our moth club.
mothyness love
meeeegan the vegan from sweden

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Wonderful site, with so many moths to choose from, its very difficult for the novice to identify a new and unusual visitor and your search facility bought us to a clear identification of a Leopard moth very quickly. A fantastic resource - many thanks

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Sorry! I mis-identified the moth. It was only when I could compare my photo with yours that I got it right. Not as exciting as a Spurge Hawk-moth, what we have in our Surrey Garden is an elephant moth. Still pleased as anything, though...

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I found a Spurge Hawk-moth – which is a dramatic and beautiful creature - and was thrilled to be able to identify it using your website. It was all the more exciting to realise that it is rare.

I tried taking photos (the moth was not in the least frisky - indeed, stayed put for the day) but the didn't turn out very well.

What a great resource!

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Hello, can anyone help me identify a beautiful moth i came across in northern Scotland??

It is about 15mm long with a lovley purple/blue ultra violet upper wing colour. Its under wing is brown with distinctive small black spots and also orange flashes towards its lower wing edges. Its so unusual and very pretty. it also has a hairy light coloured body.

Thanks Terry

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1513 White Plume Moth Pterophorus pentadactyla

Saw this in Brinscall, Chorley while cutting my hedge, so distinctive flew around my head and back into the hedge where I couldn't see it.

Great site, keep up the good work

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A totally 1st site. Came across an unknown moth in our garden (right in the middle of the industrial midlands) one quick search and bob's your uncle we have a Leopard Moth (a little out of it's patch according to the write up but totally fantastic).

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Great website, I'm from Canvey Island in Essex, and back in May I found an unusual moth camouflaged on a pile of wood in my back garden.
I took some photos and using your website I have identified it as a 'Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa'.

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hi would just like to say what a totally kewl site!!i work nites in a factory with big roll doors this time of year they are always open,so we see a lot of moths an using your site helps us identify them,it helps keep our interest in work whrn pulling a long shift lol!!!thanks again.oh btw we have seen just about all of the moths in starters top 20!!!shane.

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I work at a hotel in kettering, Northants and weve had a wooden table proped up against the wall outside. on the 11/7/08 one of our chefs noticed there was a moth laying eggs on the table. after researching your website i found it to be a leopard moth. how long does it take for the eggs to hatch and is there anything i can do to help their survival?

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My cat bought in a wonderful moth last night with a wing span of about 90 mm. My first thought was to get it off her and let it go which I did before she ate it, so was not able to study it in detail but I am guessing it could have been a Lime Hawk Moth or a Popular Hawk Moth. It was camaflouged looking, and I may be wrong but it had a broad head and I could see what appeared to be big eyes..or markings maybe.

Coming on your site to identify it has certainly stirred and interest in me.

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As everyone else says - what a great site, thank you. I just found a Dark Umber - took about two minutes to find it here after an hour looking through my books & the rest of the web. Book-marking right now.

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found a swallow-tailed moth at my bedroom window trying to get out of the rain , let it in and got some good pictures

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Found a lovely green moth on the north facing wall of the house yesterday. Looked up green striped moths and was delighted to identify it as green arches, Anaplectoides prasina.

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A large green moth has been on my window for about the last 4 hours. Thanks to UKmoths website I now know it is a Large Emerald - I've never seen one before. It is still there, and was briefly joined by an even bigger brown and cream coloured moth which flew away before I could get a good look at it. Thank you for helping me identify the green one.

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A while ago I found a rather nondescript but interestingly patterned moth in my garden. After trawling through hundreds of pictures on the internet I lost the will to live and gave up trying to identify it.
Yesterday I found another moth that I'd not seen before in the garden and wasn't in the few basic books that I have. With some trepidation I came to your site but on seeing the keyword search my spirits lifted a little. This might help I thought. Imagine my delight when after inputting "white 3 lines" the little beauty came up as the very first suggestion!
Always dissapointing to find that that it's quite common, it's even called the Common White Wave just to rub it in but it's new to me and I'll know it next time.
Thanks for a very useful site.

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I came across a moth i'd not seen before and took a few photo's , thanks to this site i was able to identify it as Leopard Moth (Zeuzera pyrina).I should mention this was in Hull, E Yorks. Regards D Buckley

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I used your site today to indentify a blury picture of a Herald moth taken on my mobile phone in mid Devon. i spotted it in a hedge sheltering from the rain. it was the very prominent white stripe i spotted first. Thanks for your help.

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Emmelina monadactyla- Type of plume moth.
Thank you very much,i wondered what this was for 20 years.

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Saw an amazing moth in glastonbury a few days ago on a shop window ledge, took some pics thinking it was a rare find!!! Checked it out on ur website to find that its quite a common elephant hawk moth!!! but none the less ur website helped us thanks x

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Great site, thankyou. Often find Moths in my shed, feed them with a honey solution which they seem fond of, not sure if right thing to do ? Never realised they were so many and colourfull! garden is full of flowers, guess this attracts them? Jim, North norfolk.

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I am regulary putting my moth trap out and recording my results, I would like to submit them to the local recorder. I live in Santon Downham, Brandon, Suffolk IP27 0TL Thank you Ann

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Just a quick note to say what an amazing site. As others have previously commented, I can now start identifying those micro moths that I never dared look at before!

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I found a moth resting in our bathroom this morning. Stunning pastel yellow colour with faint brown bars on its wings. 1 minute on your website showed it to be a Swallow tailed moth. Absolutely stunning, I was surprised to see a moth so large. Brilliant website, exactly how they should be constructed and so easy to use.

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I was just wondering...I sometimes get moths in the house when I leave the windows open during the hot summer nights...the thing is why when I capture one, two appear? I captured one last night with a glass and when I released it two flew out! This also happened when my sister captured one in her hand and released it! I can't find any information as to why this happens, it's very strange. If anyone can tell me that would be great as I'm very curious about it. The moths are the brown kind, that's all I know!

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Well done of such a very fascinating site. I found a moth this morning on my ceiling which I have never seen before, I looked on your top 20 and found it was a Swallow-tailed Moth! Stunning little creature!

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White plume moth. Found this moth in my garden today. I have not seen one like it before. Took less than a minute to identify it. Thanks

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I live in Essex and came upon an enormous moth while out doing someone's garden today. I have no knowledge of moths at all but this was larger than anything I have seen before and so I was intrigued to find out what it was called. Thought it would be 'mission impossible' but am very pleased to have been able to identify it as a Privet Hawk-moth, and all within about 5 minutes using your extremely user friendly site. Thank you.

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Can anyone help? While walking in a cliff/quarry area in Dorset recently I saw not one, but three of what appeared to be Narrow Bordered Bee Hawk Moths.
Their foodplants were certainly present in the area, although the habitat seemed odd and I was surprised to see more than one. Are they migrants or resident moths? Thanks

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thank you for this site, i accidentally hurt a moth today, im looking after it so don't worry, but your site helped me find out wat it was. thank you.

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I discovered a couple of very large moths whilst clearing undergrowth in an overgrown garden in Brampton, Cambridgeshire (23rd June 2008) I believed them to be hawk moths of some description and using your site quickly identified them as privet hawk moths. They were near the ground under a mock orange blossom (Syringa ?). Thanks for your help. I do not have any particular interest in moths, simply in nature generally.

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superb site - very useful for identifying moths i would not have otherwise known about.
also great wealth of information.

SUGGESTION
possible new sorting functionality by flight time.
e.i. - whats flying in june....

many thanks
Phil

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I am a student of agronomy, and I found your site useful when I was preparing for my Entomology exam. Thank you!
I live in Bulgaria, but we have pest insects in common with all European countries. So I've found various European sites useful, and even an American one (especially about the Colorado potato beetle). But only you seem to have a guestbook out of those whose languages I understand (what I needed most were the colour photographs of the insects, and as long as they were accompanied by their Latin binominal names the language of the site didn't matter so much). Thank you once again!

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Great, thanks. I found my first Nemophora-Degreerella today [in Norfolk] and with your site managed to identify it in about 20 seconds. Very helpful.

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Great site - found my moth in seconds (only a buff tip but I thought it was great)

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I recently saw the Willowherb Hawk-moth Proserpinus proserpina in Cambridgeshire around about the first week of June 2008.
The colouring was distinct and camouflage like which was confirmed by a reference book and your web site.
Seeing the moth count article in the Daily Express 21/06/08 jogged my memory and thought you might be interested.
Regards John Macdiarmid.

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I'd like to have some Micro moths identified.

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had an elephant hawk moth in our back porch for 2 days,never seen one before,we live near the sea in s/w scotland.porch door always open

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I want to get hold of Cinnabar moth caterpillars, any ideas?

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What a fantastic website! I'm just an interested amateur with an obviously attractive porchlight who has had a lot of moths over the years that I haven't been able to find in my admittedly limited literature. Identification is now easy thanks to you