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Fascinating and informative site with brilliant photos. It's especially good to have photos of all stages - a serious failing of so many field guide books.

Very useful website, we identified the moth we had photogaphed very quickly.

I have placed a link to your site at welsh-moths.co.uk

I found a moth in my kitchen and didn't know where to start finding out what it was. It took me about 2 minutes on this site to establish that it was an 'Angle Shades' moth.

Thanks a lot ^_^

i love your site

Just had hundreds of moths dying outside it looked as if they where swarming then just dying? some small some large mostly brown. any idea what is going on? im in central france

Excellent, a really useful resource for a beginner like me!

A very interesting and wide-ranging site. I have photographed an unknown (to me)moth in my garden this evening. It is approx. 1cm long, pale orange brown in colour with darker brown small spots all over it's back. The antennae lie flat along the sides and the wings have hairs along the back ends with a pale blue edge to the ends of the wings. The head, has what can only be described as a \"beak\" shape. If you cannot identify the species from my hazy description please, let me know, and I will put it on a floppie and post to you.

Looking for any moth aberations. If anyone knows any of U.K. species, let me know. Thanks in advance.

This is a great site, I have always enjoyed watching moths and this resource is very useful. I am an interested layman and would like to meet a more knowledgeable Moth-er in the Congleton area who could give me a better idea of Moth watching.

I have used your site previously and it is wonderful for us novices, you must work incredibly hard on it. I found a moth in the house last night and as my natural history book didn't have it I tried your keyword search thinking that it would help me identify it - but to no avail, depsite lots of different searches on colours (variations on combinations of brown, orange and white spots). In the end I googled to find another site, and through that I immediately identified it (by flight period) as a Herald. Then I looked at the Herald here and I assume it didn't come up on the keyword search is that there was no mention of the colour in its text. I know you must have a enormous wish list for improvements, but if you can get the colour into the descriptions this would be so helpful to us folks who are starting from scratch! Many thanks

I am still creating my website and need some images of moths. Here is what I need:

If anyone has images of an unusual moth (Anywhere in world) please e-mail me and tell me what you have and I will see if I want it. (You must have taken it yourself, no images from books or websites, except your own)(don't send images yet) If possible, if you do contact me, tell me what the image is of and the location it was taken and the date it was taken and who by.

If possible tell me the family it belongs to and other info if you have it

I will get back to you and tell you if I would like to use it.

Finally, I have found a place to upload my site and it will be there for years. Thanks in advance

Ian,
a great page ! Even for me who knows nearly nothing about moths. I took some time to just browse across your excellent page which is easy to use, well organised and full of great pictures. I mean \"892745 visitors\" (snapshot when I was here @ March 2nd 2007) counts for itself - isn't it ?

Keep up the very good work and hope to keep in touch.

With best regards from Germany ;-)
/Martin

Nice pics. A very useful resource for a wildlife artist. Do you know where I can find good pictures of their larvae?

1033 Green Oak Tortrix Tortrix viridana
I believe that this is the little beastie eating its way through my citrus trees. The trees overwinter in the conservatory but live outside in the summer.
Any information on its' life cycle?

Just like to say, love the site and find it very useful, especially with the micro-moths. It's only because of this that I managed to identify an ypsolopha mucronella last year, very strange-looking species!

Keep it up!

Around 13th December found a Pale Brindled Beauty. Seemed early for it to be out. Proves global warming. It is getting warmer as they are not usually out until January.

I need some information on the names of the main moth family types e.g. Sessiidae and their subfamilies. Could anyone help me? If so, e-mail me and I will get back to you. I need this for my website on Moths and Butterflies. I have the main families e.g. Cossiidae, Sesiidae etc... but need to know the subfamilies and what moths are in the subfamilies e.g

For my butterflies one I have nymphalidae and subfamily of this is satyridae and these are \"Grays, Browns, Ringlets etc...) I need similar for moths, just the basic types of moth that appear in subfamilies...

Just been looking at your site to confirm identity of moths we have had and now have in our house in cornwall.We had a deaths head hawk moth in our front room about a month ago.We currently have a hummingbird hawk moth living with us.In fact I had to stop writing this message as it was flying around the room,landed on computer screen and has now returned to its favourite place behind window blind.
I presume we are doing the right thing by not letting the moth go outside as Im sure it would die with the cold weather.

My Liverpool city center home has recently been invaded by scythris limbella
no plants to speak of can you tell me where they came from and how to
erradicate them

Having had a moth phobia since a child, (one cooked in a light fitting in my bedroom when I was about 5)I would now like to look at pictures of moths so that I can use their patterns and textures in a piece of textile work. I am using the Thomas Hardy poem August Midnight as a source of inspiration too, so would like an idea of where to start looking - moths that might have flown through his window in Dorset maybe. Hope someone can help.

i have a fear of moths they r disgusting and make me want to barf i cant believe peeps like em! i kill them when i see one i want them all to be terminated they r pests and in north america they destroy crops and i mean that aint good! and also they eat ur clothes! cum on anything that eats ur clothes is just plain minging! and they are hairy too which is disturbing they r evil i tried to kill one and it just wouldnt die it kept gettin back up and flying toward me and i kept hitting it with a shovel. so i bought stuff to kill em for real and i keep it in my bag! hehe its magic!

Just looking for any new species of moth found throught the world. Know any links? Found some Emperor moths that were discovered in 2005. If anyone knows any good sites, submit them to me please.

Second, anyone got an image of this moth (I have a plate from 1995 and I want to see an actual photo of it, not a dead one)

Its a burnet moth called a \"Fire Grid Burnet\" Scientific name \"Zrniocera Erythropyga\" and it's from Zimbabwe and Malawi to Mozambique and South Africa. Wingspan is 2.5-3cm. If anyone knows where to get one, send it to me, please.

Finally, I want to start a moth collection. (I never kill moths, but find dead ones around) I got pins and need to know what to do next. if anyone has any advice, please let me know. It would be greatful. Also, anyone know where to buy moths so I can add them to my collection? That be great also. For my site I am going to make a High definition video of how to rear catterpillars of moths until they turn into moths and how to collect dead ones and start a collection. Any advice would be great.

Thanks in advance.

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V easy to use site. I don't know the first thing about moths, but very quickly was able to identify the unusually large one I spotted a couple of weeks ago in my Edinburgh backyard, as a Hummingbird Hawk moth. Thanks!

Just an update about unusual moths for my site:

I am looking for unusual moth images for my site. You must include your name, where you found moth, and name of moth and info on what the unusual thing about moth is. Images must be under 2.0MB (jpeg file, not zip)and must be Zipped in a Zip file. Image must be same as when you took it, but just resized. No larger than 2048x1536 please.

(I have dial-up and sucks. Hopefuly not for long.)

I am writing a section on my site called \"Unusual Moths\" and in this section will like this example:

Terry Cashman (4) = 4 is number of moths that persons submitted.

Click on it it will bring up page with moths and info on it.

Got a few already. Thanks all. Keep you posted.

I have been trying to identify 1524 Emmelina monodactyla in a number of my books - but without success until I discovered your website. As a young boy, some 60+ years ago I remember we used to call them Lysander Moths after the aircraft of that name.

I am delighted to have learnt their proper name and congratulations on your website.

Excellent website, found the creature I have spent the last year wondering about. It is some kind of plume moth which I saw at my mothers house last year.

Wish I had known about your website last Christmas.

Hi,
My website is of course all Australian moths. However there may be a some pictured that are on your wish list. Google \"Insects of Townsville\".

Regards,

Just browsing to see if I can identify a moth I found

We found a Convulvulus Hawk Moth in our front garden on Saturday 14/10/06 in Chichester.Thanks for your site which allowed quick ID.