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Hello!

I am a photographer, I am studying a MA in Documentary Photography in the University of Wales at the moment and one of my photographic projects is about Moths. About the animal it self and about the its importance in ecological balance. By project is also art-based, trough Moths I want to present an alternative for our anthropocentric attitude towards nature, and present nature as an beautiful and ancient entity.

I am working with some moth recorders already, but it would be absolutely amazing if I could contact more people in the UK that work with Moths, go out to spot and photograph them, or do any kind of work related to moths.
I tried to find Ian Kimber's email but it's not on UKmoths.

My personal email is catarinafontoura@gmail.com.

Thank you very much.
Catarina

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Great informative website. A.D.King (ecologist - ADK Environmental)

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Towards the end of May 2011 I noticed a very small and beautiful moth feeding on my scabious plant. I took several photos in the hope of identifying it in our butterfly/moth book but was unable to. I have tried several times since with various sights on the internet, but my knowledge of this moth was virtually nil, as I could not remember having seen it before. A few minutes ago I found your sight and your search with keywords, I input -yellow dots with red- and lo and behold there was my illusive moth, Pyrausta aurata. I was thrilled, and would like to congratulate you on your wonderful web sight

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absolutely invaluable resource, paticularly for the micros. More photos illustrating variability within a species would be useful.

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2173 The Lychnis Hadena bicruris
(Hufnagel, 1766)

The specimen presented here is actually Hadena perplexa.

Jaakko Kullbeg

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1763 Arran Carpet Chloroclysta concinnata

fascinating that you also have a northern form or something of truncata! In Finland we have the same moth flying in late summer and looking quite different in contrast the nominotypical one which in Finland doesn't have full second brood. Merely just accidental specimens in normal years. I wonder if anybody has checked its barcode yet?

Jaakko Kullberg

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465a Plutella haasi

I have netted this species in Northern Ural mountains and Central Siberia on flowering Draba alpina stands sometimes in just single plants. I encourage you to look it more on the places where it grows.

Jaakko Kullberg

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Hi again,

hard to be sure of course, but I think that you are having here two different species represented as Tebenna micalis. I find pictures php?id=4892 and php?id=4894 to represent a typical Tebenna micalis, but other three pictures I would guess to be merely Tebenna pretiosana (living on dry places on Inula salicina, Pulicaria dysenterica and Carlina) which is earlier been mixed with Tebenna bjerkandrella occurring in more humid places and possibly having more northern distribution: Sweden, Finland (living on e.g. Cirsium tomentosum).

In Central Europe many people still erroneously mix pretiosana with bjerkandrella which is there atleast much more rare species if occurring at all in most places.

Jaakko Kullberg

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I was looking the pic of Pammene ignorata show.php?bf=1228a and in my mind this specimen would be merely another species Pammene gallicolana. Normally the real Pammene ignorata is more blackish and has less bright brown scales in the forewing. Of course it is not so easy to determine species from photos. However I would merely expect gallicolana to occur in GB than much more continental ignorata!

Sincerely, Jaakko Kullberg

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Hi,

thank you for your excellent site!

I was just looking the pic of Agriphila geniculea: id=3963
and start to suspect that the darker specimen down might better fit to the dark form of Agriphila inquinatella. The form of the outern line is not as sharply curwed outwards at it should be!

Sincerely,
Jaakko Kullberg

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This is a great site and has helped me ID moths from my trap this year. Thanks alot Ian!

Jack

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Awsome site

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Hi,

I've used your site on numerous occasions to identify mothes and caterpillars. Yesterday (Dec 7th) my daughter spotted a caterpillar on our hall floor. I'm certain its a large yellow underwing (as per pics online and have hatched them before.

Just wondering why there's a caterpillar about in Dec. It's eating well so hopefully will pupate over winter. Would be interested to know if this is common,

Many thanks,

Rachel

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found a moth/butterfly.Fortrose Ross shire.Scotland 20010 size about a hawk moth.discription nearest to garden hawk but was a deep ruby red body and where orange on garden,deep red.Wings-spots black background white on other wings , reds where garden moth is orange.really unusual can't find it anywhere.Unfortunately was last summer and I moved it out the way of strimmer,as rather doopy,and heavy,No photo,not realising it was not on any data base I can find!any idea's?
Was it blown off course? I'm by by the Firth(where the dolphines are.) cheers Loved to know what it was.

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Hello Ian, fairly new user to the site, at last I have been able to identify the caterpillars I have been finding at the roots of grasses whilst weeding during summer and autumn. They have been in various stages of growth and several shades of green and browns. Many Thanks. Love the Images.
Angie Seymour.

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As an individual Biological Research Technician and Entomologist I find this site a source of valuable information.

Any chance of telling me the price of your CD please.

Eric.

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Contributed to the recording scheme by John Heath in the 1960's and early 70's. Have now got back to moths following a 40 year gap. There are a lot of nomenclature changes and quite a few more species around. Also so much easier for the micros these days with the online sites especially the dissection group upgrading Pierce's work. Resident near the coast in Suffolk. Recorded in Gloucestershire 45 years back.

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We get moths in our garden on the Isle of Wight, and a lot get in to our bungalow - handy for id purposes! The variety of colour and size is astonishing!
Your website is so useful!
After a while I use a clean beer-glass and a beer-mat or similar to catch them without harming them - a technique I learned from my dad - and deposit them back outside.

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Informative site and as this is my first year Mothing a very useful site for reference and has increased my learning curve dramatically.
Reference books including Skinners have their limitations but used in conjunction with UK Moths adds value to this addictive hobby.

Kind Regards

Richard Kinzler

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Thank you! We had a Small Eggar Moth (eriogaster lanestris) nest with many, many larvae located on a blackthorn bush in one of our hedges. We are an organic beef farm that is part of the Natural England Entry Level Stewardship programme. This means we only cut our hedges every other or third year. Thus providing the moths with the oppotunity to nest. We're very excited to be able to identify them with the help of your website. We have some excellent photos of the nest and hope to use the images in applying for the Higher Level programme with Natural England which will enable us to upgrade our environmental work in balance with our farming practices. We will make another effort to locate and record the moth nests on the farm this spring as its wonderful to see them!!! Thanks again for a great website!!

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Just to let you know that I reside in Northumberland on border with Tyne and Wear.
I recently took a photo of a Pterophorus Galactodactyla in my kitchen.

I believe these are rare for this area.

Anyone want a copy of the photo ( not good quality ) let me know.

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Brilliant site, has helped me several times in the past.

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Ian
Site gets better and better.
Is there a month by month guide to which species one might expect to find in (say) November? Just as an aid to decreasing the options when trying to determine identification

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Thanks found my moth xanthorhoe flutuata only ever see it in the house late September have never seen it outside. Live on The Lizard Cornwall

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Moths and the Moon ? . Do you think that they navigate by the moon and do you think you get a better moth night on a humid night ?

Absolutey fabulous site btw . Well done for taking on a herculean task !

Rik morley in edinburgh

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very useful site, has helped me on several occasions

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Thank you so much for a great site here .... I got the information I was looking for :)

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i am new to this site and am trying to find my way around.

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Help !!
I have accessed your excellent site but the pages have somehow reduced to less than one sixth of normal size. All the links are working perfectly producing full size material. How has this happened and have you any ideas as to how I might be able to restore you site to full health?

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I live on the Derbyshire / Leicestershire borders and this evening I had a Red Underwing moth on the dining room wall.

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Absolutely brilliant,having used Skinner for many years, the photos are stunning; in fact the whole site is. Well done to you and everyone involved.

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Hi im from huddersfield and came across this moth being chased by the neighbours cat. It is now safe. Its the largedt moth ive seen and took a picture so i can try and idetify it. I came across the Convolvulus Hawk-moth, is this correct and is it usually seen in west Yorkshire??

How can u send the picture???

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Hi.
Ii's one of the most informative websites; since 2009/10 i've been using it to identify (with errors of mine, naturally) my own moth's photos that i take here in Portugal (and also in Spain), because many are common.
Thanks for the amanzing set of photos that you put at our disposal. Thanks.
Carlos Silva

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I've been using your brilliant site (one of my favourites) for years and never thanked you. It takes real dedication to produce something as good as this - thanks, Ian.

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A most valuable and useful source. Very many congrats to Ian and all involved in keeping it to such a high standard. I started by purchasing several of the discs (when I was on dial-up) and now use the site on a very regular basis. Very happy to pay a subscription or make a donation.
A thought - how about a forum on which we could post photos of unidetified moths? With a small fee? Occasionally, a micro or whatever defies local id and it would be great to have help.
Every best wish. Keep up the good work.

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Hello,

I've had these small flying insects coming into the house for years but have never found out what they are. Are they moths? Does anyone know what they're called:

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Thanks!

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We found a large moth on our wooden gate. With help from your site it appears to be a convolvulus hawk moth .

I have had a lot of moths that feed on lavender during the day hovering like humming birds.

We live in Hampshire near the coast.

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Found a Lime Hawkmoth lavae, at our Dr`s Surgery carpark, as a matter of fact there were about 5 or 6 of them. I got on to your site via NHM website and found out what is was, also that someone else from Wigan found one, I wonder if it was from the same area, around Pennington.

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Hi,

I'm reasonably convinced that I've photographed a Convulvulous Hawk resting on the wall of my house, but wondered if there was a way to submit a picture to you for confirmation?

Kind regards

Matt Swinfen

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Just discovered your site - excellent and a very valuable resource given the difficulty most non-specialists have in identifying the smaller moths.
IanF

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Love the site guys - very helpful for me as a newbie to mothing.

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I was waiting for a bus at Lewisham Bus terminus , I was at Loampit Vale next to the River Quarry & saw a Jersey Tiger Moth on the metal railing by a buddlea . It was the biggest moth I've ever seen in the UK .

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Very interesting website. I wanted to send you a picture of an unidentified Caterpillar but I can't see your email address so can't send it due to the way my email works! Shame

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I find this site really useful and helpful. I'm a rookie moth enthusiast and this site is just the thing I need. I'm thinking about getting the iPhone app for useful identifying when I'm out and about. Thank you, Ian!

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great site and very helpful with moth id that we do here on Orford Ness

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I Love these pictures, but I cannot find my moth that I took pictures of last night. It looks like a Garden Tiger but the head doesn't match the pictures you show. It has dark lacy top wings and the under wings are red & black not red & blue and it only has a little head, but it's feet were huge. Any ideas would be gratefully received.

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Hi, I find your site very valuable in confirming identities of moths I capture. I have a pale yellow micro I caught recently and have been unable to identify. I have a photograph available in digital format if you can advise me on where to email it. I also have photos of an unknown Caterpillar that I would like to have identified can you also help with this please?

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A useful site thank you for the opportunity and effort to maintain. We have a light reddish brown moth (an eye/spot on each wing)that has been around our house for the last 3 nights that I cannot find/match on your site. Wingspan is approx 2 inches at rest and one wing appears damaged (hole) which is poss' reason for permanent sighting. I have some pictures if you would/could view to confirm type. Our location is Somerset (Postcode BA22).

Regards,

Bob C

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very helpfull site brilliantly set out and dont no why i haven't found it before.had already id'd the moth i was after but wanted more info which i got.it was an orange swift and laying alot of eggs which i hope to raise a few.im in wantage (oxfordshire)also five mins away is a field full of cinnibar moth catapillars.
viewing the guest book i have notiched just how popular the jersey tigers are for being id'd at this point in time.
keep up the good work.will definatly be visiting again.

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Very useful site . I have just used it to identify a Jersey Tiger in our garden in Rochester, Kent, which suggests the range is still increasing.