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 found this site a couple of years ago and usually turn to it first if I find a moth that I don't recognise (which is most of them!). So far I have managed to identify most of my finds through the keyword search - brilliant!
Great website and the top twenty moths ID is a great idea it helped me and my sons identify an angle shades we found. Many thanks!
Dear colleagues, I am here by chance (as a hydrobiologist I checked some info for water larvae) but I can't leave these very interesting pages. I am delighted with your site! Many thanks for your excellent job! LN
Wow! It is such a shock when a site that you use every day changes and you were not expecting it! Just wanted to say well done for putting such a huge amount of work in - only looked at the Oak Eggar so far, but it was easy to find on the search - went straight to it! Thanks and well done.
An amazing site and very helpful in the identifiation of a moth I'd never seen before. Turns out to be common, but yesterday (02/09/2013) the first time in my 62 years I'd seen a Canary Shouldered Thorn. What an amazing moth. And this site has piqued my interest, so I'll be looking out for more...