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
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.
I like your update. I've been using this site for years and it looks great now. Thanks you for providing this - I point people to ukmoths to find out more stuff about moths.
A most interesting site to browse as well as enabling me to identify moths i have taken photos of.
Delighted to be able to identify an elephant hawk moth I spotted today in Acle, Norfolk. Your website was brilliant. Thank you
I am in awe at the scope, the breadth and the realization of your website. Congratulations to all involved. The photos are inspiring. I live now in central France where the hummingbird hawk moth is a frequent visitor to our garden. One particular specimen was rather darker and had a distinct red...