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What a great site! I just spotted the most strange looking moth in garden. Dashed indoors for my camera, but it had gone. A quick look on your site, and I quickly identified it as a hummingbird moth. What an amazing creature! I really hope it comes back, as I habe never seem anything like it before.

Hi,
i cannot identify a moth that visited me last night in my bedroom!
I need to identiy it as it has laid eggs and in order to look after the larve i will need to now what they eat.
please could you contact me as i dont know what to do for the best interests of this moths off spring.

Hello Ian
This is a brilliant site. I've always had a residual interest in the larger more obvious moths, but have only tried to ID everything I can find in my local square since the beginning of this year...so I have a very steep learning curve for which your site is a great help
Thanks very much
Andy Harding

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What a lovely and informative site :)
You have helped me to identify a beautiful and surprising visiter.
This afternoon I was sitting in a friend's small cottage garden of at least 200 years provenance, nestled next to the church here in Stonesfield, a small village on the edge of the Cotswolds in W. Oxfordshire. At around 12 midday we both observed a large flying insect (about one and a half inches across wings) hovering around a clump of pink phlox. The hovering and the exceptionaly long proboscis it was feeding with reminded me of humming birds. I've never seen one here before, but I knew they could be summer visiters from my lifelong fascination with garden insects. Your site confirmed it was a Hummingbird Hawkmoth.
We are hoping to see it again and will try to photograph it.
Considering the hard winter, is this an unusual sighting? Can we look forward to seeing more of them?
Best Wishes
Ros

Thankyou; I've hopefully identified the moths seen this afternoon, by using your search facility; bright red spots, black body, seen in a Suffolk field; presuming it has to be a Burnett 5 spot.
Your site assisted me more than the two books we have in determining this.

Often use the site to check out my catches. Find the photos a great help. My hope is to contribute a photo sometime of one you haven't got! Keep up the good work please.

noticed an unusual moth this morning attached to my fencing in Newcastle upon tyne
checked your web site for identification and i think it is a Black arch,but this only appears in the South
have i mis read the I.D

I was looking for information about Ostrinia nubilalis in Great Britain and I found what I was looking for (number of generations). Thanks!

Very useful site - identified a moth that I'd never seen before in less than a minute!! Thought to be rare - turned out to be number 3 of the 20 most common beginners unidentified moths - a Lime Hawk. An impressive moth nonetheless - thanks for your help

my daughter found a privet hawk moth in our garden.we took some photos and used your website to identify.great website many thanks keep up the good work.

Brilliant! I found a Swallowtail Moth at work yesterday and had no idea what it was - except that it was beautiful! Logged onto your Top Twenty just now and identified it instantly .Willdefinitely add this to my Favourites .
Richard D.

Hello we used your site to find out what the very large moth was that we found. It was very useful. Turned out to be a privet hawk moth. Based in Elsham, Lincolnshire so they are getting further north!

My neighbour has a photo taken in North Wiltshire recently. The only identification I can make is
Zygaena ephialtes, the Variable Burnet. Is this possible? Have other sightings been made in the
UK?

Found what I was looking for.. Riband Wave in SE London.. your site has far more moths to sift through than any book I know!

Great site, I was lucky and found yesterday a huge moth which thanks to your site I know for sure was a 1976 Privet Hawk-moth and also got a picture on my phone.What a fantastic moth!!!!!!!

I photogtaphed a small magpie moth in my garden 16/06/11. I had not seen this one before!

Great Website.

Excellent site, very informative for a complete newcomer like myself.

This was a great way to identify a couple of moths I'd never seen before - a Scarlet Tiger Moth in my sister's garden in Oxford and a Hummingbird Hawk moth here in my garden in Cheshire. Is it unusual for them to be this far north?

Hello

Great Site, just identified a lime hawk moth in our small garden, in Cleveleys, just of the coast, north of Blackpool

A species of moth, that I'd certainly not seen before, hitched a ride on my car today. I used your site and have identified it as a Burnet Moth (unsure as to which one specifically).

Was unaware of just how many species exist in the UK.

Great website. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity.

great site loads of info

Spotted a lovely moth in our garden in Lytham St Annes , Lancashire on 31st May 2011 and from your site identified it as a Lime Hawkmoth . Great site..very interesting.

Thank you Ian for such a great, informative and very user friendly website, especially to a complete novice.

I used your website to identify a moth I filmed over a period of eight days. And just wanted to take the time to personally thank you.

I've emailed you a link to the film.

Many thanks and kindest regards,

Martyn

Dear Ian,

Fantastic site! I have a design suggestion - could the thumbnails be differentiated by adults, larva etc. as for the leps.it site - this would be enormously useful for the initial scanning of key groups for identification purposes.

Matthew

ive just seen a golden moth in my garden have never seen this type before ive tracked it down to be the Adela thorpella is this rare for the uk

Lovely site.
We found a dark moth this morning in our bathroom - little eyes at the top corners of the wings. We can't find it anywhere on here, but we have really enjoyed looking at the pictures.

Martin

Excellent easy to use and the most complete guide I've found I hope your site continues to expand, with more photographs/identification many thanks. I hope to be able to contribute photographs in the future.

Thankyou. We found a moth this morning in the garden. We took a photo of it as we did not recognise it. Your site has helped us identify it perfectly.

Marvellous site, if I find a moth you need a photo for I will definitely try and get one, however whilst doing some night trapping with an experimental fly trap I also caught a Plodia interpunctella. As this is in Yorkshire and outside I consider this really quite unusual, I am used to finding it it in clients factories but outside? Are they normally found outside in the UK?
regards

Mike