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Really helpful - found out about the cinnabar moth - I will think again about pulling up all the ragwort in my field - will leave enough for the caterpillars to munch on

Thank you - easily found identification of Cinnabar moth

Such a useful site - now really comprehensive and so well-designed. Much appreciated.

The Cinnabar spotted in Blaenau ffestiniog Gwynedd North wales

Thank you so much for your beginners page. I was really not looking forward to searching pages of images for the moth I found last night and there he was, the first image on the beginners page. The poplar hawk moth.
Thank you.

Strange request for a uk moths web site.But i was based in Cameroon West Africa for two years and took 1000 digital photos of moths while there is any one interested? Hope youcan help. Rog.

well run smashing to work with found what it was with laymans terms

I have taken a photo of a huge moth I would like you to identify it, can I send you the picture. The moth has bat like wings with a large very round thorax.

'Keyword Search'
Excellent - got 1361 Pyrausta Aurata at first try!
Just seen one in the garden, Harrogate, North Yorks.

I love the website, but I've a pressing issue I need help with!

A couple of days ago a moth came into my room and he has been living here ever since. The problem is, he's been sat in the same place on my lamp shade since yesterday. Today I have found another moth on the other side of my lamp shade! They're adorably cute and welcome to stay, but I want to know if they're ok because they've not moved in a while.

I took a wobbly picture of them with my dad's camera. They looked like this:

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Sorry I can't link to it or abbreviate the start of that link with h t t p, the guestbook has a filter and won't let me x.x; Eh, I've thought of kinda' a way around it! Just copy img239.imageshack.us/img239/3066/dustymothswl8.jpg and paste into the address bar :3


Thanks for any help you can give me! ^-^!

Only just started mothing and have already found this site to be excellent.
However I found a Longhorn in the Wyre Forest Worcs and in my insect book it was most like what they listed as 'Adela viridella'. I can't find that in the Systematic List and I am wondering why.
Shall be using this site a lot in the future. Brilliant.

JUST A LITTLE NOTE TO SAY WE HAD A LIME HAWK IN OUR GARDEN. NOT SEEN ONE BEFOR KIDS LOVED IT WANTED TO KOWN WHAT IT WAS ...?
NOW WE KOWN THANK YOU!

I've just e-mailed a moth photo to you this morning and look forward to hearing what it is.
I am a photographer beginner and am learning to take close-ups of insects.
Derek
Macclesfield, Cheshire

First visit. My daughter took a photo of a moth that looked like it was wearing army camouflage green/ brown. beautiful markings. What type of moth could it be. I would be grateful for your view. Many thanks ALISON wALKER

Hi Alison, this sounds like a Lime Hawk Moth - Ian

Great website - managed to identify Lime Hawkmoth from your site this evening - after the cat brought it in.
Always found moths very daunting and difficult to identify - will use your site now I've found it.

Rob Black , Sandbach, Cheshire.

seen male and female lime hawk moths mating thanks to your site identification was quick and easy location west yorkshire ossett

thanks once again

hi sorry to ask here i have no idea where to look,i have a funny kind of moth on my door, it is white/silver all over i can only see under it but it looks like it has 2 long pincher type things coming from its mouth. There are 2 orange dots under it and thats all i can see. it is definatley a moth and its abour 1 half inches long
any ideas?
tthanks

found the site very interesting. I was watching a moth in the garden today, had never seen one before. Was very similar to a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, of which I get a lot in the garden, but this one was more light brown and orange in colour, and the body was longer. It was laying eggs on the underside of the honey suckle. It may well have been a humming bird Hawkmoth, but I am not sure if you can get different varieties? It was as large as a HBHM and very similar in flight. Typical, it had dissapeared by the time my husband came over for a look!

very informative, excellent photos.thanks

thursday afternoon have just found afine lime hawk-moth in our garden on our shed date 17-5-07 time 16-10

are there any moths in santorini?

I saw this moth for the first time on 12th May 2007. I have lived in the same house for 20 years, next door to a field. Last Autumn I saw lots of the caterpillars feeding and wondered what they were. Thanks to your page I now know all about them. Thank you very much.

A superb website

Identified a White Ermine moth for my project at school. Thanks.

I have used your site since the early days - on its old server - and have watched it grow and grow with increasing pleasure. Please, please keep up the good work and know that there are many grateful folk out here who rely on your efforts to keep them happy and, especially as regards 'micros' to keep them sane in their search to identify species.

Have just come across this website for the first time and it will certainly not be my last visit. Just terrific!.

Hi Ian,
I live in London and was walking through Wood Green with my baby today when I got hit full in the face by a large moth. It fell onto my baby's changing bag, where it stayed. It seemed quite happy to join us on our shopping trip and when I got home I tried to get it to climb on a piece of bark so I could go inside. It steadfastly refused to move, so I put the bag in the back garden in the hope it would fly off. It is now 4 1/2 hrs later and it's showing no signs of moving.

I looked on your website and it looks like a lime hawk moth, but must be ready to pupate as it's a brown/grey colour. Far be it for me to tell it where to choose, but I really need to get my bag back in. Any ideas?

By the way, I know nothing about moths- does pupating mean it is about to die? I thought it was when they changed from caterpillar to moth (from an 0-level biology standpoint).

Hope you can give me some advice as it's getting dark and I need that bag!

Cheers,

Michaela

Hey If You Or Anyone Has Information About Black Catapillars Which Make White Silk Webs And Turn Into Black Moths Or Something Can You Please Email Me
I Live In Wallasey England And They Are Spreading Fast And Would Like To Know Wether These Are Poisonous, The Council Say They Have Never Seen Anything Like It :o xXx Kayleigh xXx

Excellent site, easy to use.

Thank you for your very useful site.It enabled me to identify Angle shades-Phlogophora meticulosa. I took a photo of one last night on my back wall.