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
Saw an unusual moth sucking nectar from the honeysuckle in my garden - it hovered just like a hummingbird. Found your site and it was so easy to identify it! Funnily enough it was actually called a Hummingbird Hawk Moth - can't say I have ever seen anything like it! (South Lincolnshire)
A most interesting site to browse as well as enabling me to identify moths i have taken photos of.
Hi I have always been interested in nature, mostly birds (if I'm allowed to mention such creatures here!!), but have recently started to notice moths more and have found your site easy to use and very informative. Love the keyword finder. Many thanks for making moths accessible Hilary
I've been catching and photographing the moths that come into the house (then letting them go) and your website has been invaluable to identifying them. Thank you so much!
Very useful website - I have a book on butterflies and moths but it is not always easy to identify them from the pictures. I have seen my first stunning Swallowtail and a Herald ... looking for more now.