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
i collect records of moths seen in my garden. UK MOTHS is an essential identification aid i use in conjunction with good reference books to verify difficult species. Many thanks for that.
A most interesting site to browse as well as enabling me to identify moths i have taken photos of.
Thank you so much for all the hard work that has been put into this website! I've been using this website religiously alongside Chris Manley's British moths and butterflies book in an attempt to identify the moths caught in my back garden for my third year dissertation project! It has been so much...
A brilliant site, where would we be without it, one of my first points of reference.
Delighted to be able to identify an elephant hawk moth I spotted today in Acle, Norfolk. Your website was brilliant. Thank you