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
A brilliant site, where would we be without it, one of my first points of reference.
Ian, I've been using your site for along time, it remains a mainstay of my mothing. This looks like a landmark update. Thanks.
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 considered this a brilliant resource when I used it previously but the update is better still!
I just wanted to thank you for this site - I've developed a mild obsession with working out what the moths that fly into the house at night are and this is invaluable. Thank you!