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
Simply want to say how useful this guide is for an amateur like me. Ants are my speciality but Lepidoptera are so lovely and, by comparison, a lot easier to identify!
This site is really interesting, and helpful! For a few years I've seen dozens of these little purple moths in my garden and none of my wildlife books could help me identify it. It turned out to be Pyrausta purpuralis, mystery solved!!!
This website is great! Every time I come across a moth, I always find it here, even if sometimes by the vaguest keywords possible. I love it!
Hi Ian, I have used this site a few times and have found it to be most useful. Thanks Ian Hardy
Just found your brilliant resource. For a non-specialist the keywording is great and enabled me to ID the numerous moths that have been appearing over the past three weeks in my home office towards dusk. The Brown House-moth 647 fits the bill exactly.