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My daughter (6 1/2 yrs) spotted a caerpillar on the side of the road that was rather stunning and very furry and funky!! After searching wikipedia, and googling, found this site and identified the caterpillar as being the larvae of a Pale Tussock.
Thank you!!

Superb site - thank you for all the trtemendous effort that has gone into making it so good.

As a lapsed amateur lepidopterist with limited internet use, i check your site as often as am able- great information and even better photos! Latest seen was ubiquitous elephant hawk larva in gardens of Brodsworth Hall nr Doncaster, final instar and brown form (will I ever find a green one?)but none of regular foodplants in evidence- do they ever feed on roses? This was all that was around, am confused! Also red underwing imago came to lights at workplace, only 2nd I Ever seen in this area over 10 years- beautiful!

I found the site very useful, having spent days wondering how to discover the species of moth I found dead in my shed. I think it was an orange underwing, but the thing is, I disturbed it a month or so ago, alive and ?sleeping in a place ideal for hibernating. I left it, it must have been trapped inside.
Anyway, I shall return to the site.

I never know whether I should really destroy moths, because I'm an avid gardener, and want to avoid the dreaded moths that attack fruit trees etc.

Pamela

a very interesting and useful site

Came across a large unidentified caterpillar in my parent's garden this evening. Using your website, I was able to identify it as an elehant hawk moth and, can visualise what it will eventually turn into. Many thanks, an extremely user friendly,informative, website with very good images.

A really good comprehensive site with some smashing pictures.

My three year old son noticed a caterpillar of an eyed hawk moth on a tree in East Sussex. He was fascinated - particularly with the blue tail - or horn? This site was incredibly useful as it helped us to identify it and enabled me to explain what the caterpillar would turn in to. Many thanks for providing this service.

Thank you, I found just what I was looking for.

Good clear photos confirmed my initial id from old (printed) field guide of sycamore caterpillar - curiously found under an oak tree, but there may have been some maple in the hedge. I'm impressed that other people have seen convulvulus hawk moths this year - we only get them when the weather has been hot for some time.

An excellent site & frequently referenced - would just like more x-referencing to 'similar species' within both macro & micro species & also between them ! Currently musing as to whether I'm looking at Calmotropha paludella, Silky Wainscot or something else a lot more common !!?.....

i found your website while searching for information on the hummingbird hawk-moth. i live in columbus, ohio. recently my husband and i were at a friend's house in rural somerset, ohio and there was a hummingbird hawk-moth flittering around in the garden. none of us had ever seen one before. at first, we thought it was a small hummingbird, but upon closer inspection we realized it was some type of moth. thanks for the great photos!

Spotted in Livingston on 9th september an Angle Shades

i have two elephant hawk moth caterpillers but they are jet black and eating bramles i have none of the usual plants listed that they normally eat also not near the coast but, surrounded by mountains cute little chaps!

i found the site very useful for work and general interest purposes

Wonderful site, wish I had had this in my mothing every day mode in 60's and 70's!

I find this site ever more useful the more I use it. This year has been my first trying to get to grips with some non-macros. Its a slow learning curve but bit by bit more fall into place and your site is the single biggest help. It would be very helpful to have a hardcopy of the photos. Are they published anywhere?
Good Luck and thanks for a great site.
Robin Hemming

super site, but needing some help quickly.
Have adopted 10 tiger moths and one very large one seems to be making a cocoon , do i put it out and if where or do I keep it in the tub with the rest of them, help...

I love this site! It is very easy to navigate around, and the photographs are clear. In fact, the collection of photographs is the most comprehensive that I have come across and the moths have been labelled and grouped according to their scientific classification. The search engine is also very useful, especially if, like me, you can only remember one or two physical features of that lovely moth you saw on the window yesterday. There is also a very helpful section for beginners. You can even send in your own moth photographs! In my opinion, this site warrants regular visits.

Hi Ian,
Super site for moth identification - best I've found and I've looked all over the net!
I found this dead on the edge of my pond last week, it looks like a type of moth but has a very unusual tailend. I've put some very large photo's of it up on one of my spare web pages at zest-it com/moth htm
I've not seen anything quite like it before, it probably isn't a moth, but it's too large for a lacewing and the tailend reminds me of a dragonfly nympth. I don't think it's a dragon/damselfly, it's antenna are far too long. I live in an area of Leicestershire surrounded by Broadleave and Evergreen woods. Any help identifying this unusual specime would be appreciated, thank you, Jacqui

I am interested in buying an identification of the micro-moths.Can you recommend a suitable book/s?

Thanks for your help.
G.Moss.

Saw my first ever Convolvulus Hawk moth 28 Aug 07 whow what a beauty! So glad I was able to identify it using this site. Brilliant.

Wow... Just found a huge moth in my washing, and having never seen anything like this up close and in the wild before decided to investigate a little futher! Landed up finding your website, which is fab especially for a moth novice like me, and have sucessfully identified my gentle, furry giant as a \"Convolvulus Hawk Moth\" visiting Wiltshire. Am delighted!!!! Kids are most intrigued by it all and are now going to try to make one of those moth traps with a sheet to see what else is wizzing around that we're all ignoring!!! I expect we're going to use this site alot now, Thanks.

Great web-site, very informative. I noticed that somebody noted spotting a jersey tiger moth in Taunton. I also saw one for the first time this year - I'm based just south of Taunton also in Somerset. Perhaps they are progressing north?.

I have spent ages using this site to I.D. a lot of moths I got pics of latley. Good place, helped me learn a lot. my moth and butterfly website is davesleps.110mb.com and it is going to get pritty big soon with all thes moths I have to ID. Without this site, I probably could not have found some information and I.d some of the moths on my website and that I found. Great resource.

Excellent site! A mine of information, and very user friendly!
I've always loved moths, even as a child when my friends preferred 'pretty butterflies'.
Whenever I see a moth, I try to photograph him, but had no way to identify them until I came across your site!
So far, I'm still looking for my mothy friend who came into the kitchen last night, but I'm sure I'll get him eventually, thanks to your brilliant site! We are in Romford, Essex (RM1) and don't often see larger moths.
He was about an inch long, and 3/4 inch across when sitting, his wingspan was about an inch and a bit. He was a lovely brown colour with sort of subtley different coloured horizontal brown stripes on his wings. He had long thin antennae which were a brick-reddish brown and really big beige circular eyes!
I also had a pale green moth, around the same size on the ceiling, but have no idea what he could be! Unfortunately, he wasn't feeling very photogenic and kept fluttering about.
If you have any idea what they could be, please let me know!

Once again, thanks for a truly excellent site!

Sorry to be pedantic, but one of the Hedge Rustic's foodplants (mat grass) is actually Nardus stricta, not Nodus stricta as listed on 2177.

Hi Ian,
I've bookmarked your site and will visit from time to time to just enjoy comparing your species from the UK. My collection is from Australia. Google \"Insects of Townsville\".

Regards, Graeme

My wife and I love this site.. Good pics, descriptions and lifecycle info.
Have just identified an elephant hawk moth in west wales in 25th Aug. Beautiful creature made my day.

Excellent site been interested for a long while and just had a great veiwing of a rosy footman and what i belive to be a magpie, it however didnt have any yellow on it but did play dead. Any ideas as to where i can get a moth lamp/trap from?