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
Thank you for this excellent site. I saw a beautiful blue-green moth a couple of nights ago here in Pant Glas, Gwynedd, of a type I had never seen in enough detail before to identify. As I now know, having found it on your site, it was a Light Emerald. Common, but none the less wonderful for that.
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.
Brilliant site, invaluable for people new to moths. I've been using it for a while now, to identify the occasional day-flying moths I've come across, but have now succumbed to a moth trap. The variety found in my garden is fascinating. Your keyword search is very helpful, and has enabled me to...
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!
Just found your very lovely website, which I am going to be coming back to lots, now that my interest in moths is blossoming.