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Lisa - 25 August 2006
Hello Ian,

Stumbled across your website when I was trying to identify a moth/butterfly spotted in my garden that I hadn't seen before and turns out it was a HummingBird hawk moth - amazing to watch. Thanks to your website I was able to identify it very easily. Thanks again.

Kind regards,

Lisa (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
paul - 24 August 2006
Does any one know of mothing meets/clubs in the south of Ireland?...thanks...paul.
paul - 24 August 2006
I have just started mothing, I look the moths up in books and my 14 year old girl looks on your site to see if I have the ID right! So far she has been right more than me!, great site ...thanks...Paul.
David York - 23 August 2006
what a cracking site! very helpful, found a eyed hawk moth caterpillar in our back yard in grantham, was able to identify it quickly by using your easy to navigate site full marks! thanks Dave York
David Howarth - 23 August 2006
Thanks for a very helpful site! Allowed me to identify the moth that was sitting on my garage door this morning as a Jersey Tiger (in SE London!).
alan .w - 22 August 2006
one of the best web sites i have seen THANKS ALAN W
Susan Bratchley - 22 August 2006
Identified a moth I have never seen before, thank you.
(Jersey Tiger). Amazing!
Jim Woods - 22 August 2006
Hi really enjoy looking through site and find it very helpful to me as a beginner with an interest in moths
Jim Woods
gail mands - 22 August 2006
found an elephant hawk moth caterpiller in my garden - easy to identify from your website. I'm told its a rare occurence where i live in the north of scotland (Moray Firth Coastal area) and yes it was eating my fushia!
Matthew Smith - 22 August 2006
Great site. Just to add to the South London (East Dulwich, SE22) sightings of Jersey Tiger Moths, my wife spotted one in our bird bath a couple of weeks ago. We fished (mothed?) it out and were pleased to see it start crawling over her hand after a few moments.
Lenny - 22 August 2006
If you really want to attract hummingbird hawkmoths into your garden then plant Nicotinia!
jane courtenay-moore - 19 August 2006
our buddlier bush has been visited by a buetifull moth for weeks and thanks to you we now know it is a hummingbird hawk moth we will be back to this most helpfull and interesting sight.
keith winston smith - 19 August 2006
Great site!! found what I was looking for quickly and easily.
B Tabor - 19 August 2006
Dear Sirs,

I wanted to know the food plant of larval humming bird hawk moths (I have seen more adults this year than ever before, and wondered if they are breeding locally), and found the information in seconds. A well organised and informative site, to which I will return, now that I know where you are.

Thank you.

Barry T (Cambs.)
steve warcup - 18 August 2006
out of pure coincidence, on of the guys i work with, seen one of the great tiger last nite it his mates backgarden, this one was actually alive.
Lenny - 18 August 2006
Has anyone seen any Deaths Head Hawkmoths this year? I have just ordered a larvae pack and hope to succesfully rear some. As this is my 1st attempt I would apprieciate any advice. Many thanks, Len
Andrea Gwinnett - 17 August 2006
Your site is really useful, it identified our moth as 'The Drinker'(I think).
He shot in the patio doors one night in late July and head banged his way round the room despite our best efforts to put him back outside. I was rather sad when I found him dead behind the tv, he was a slendid chap. We seem to be quite well off for moths up here in Suffolk and were visited by a hummingbird moth the other morning. Thanks again for your help.
bryan harris - 17 August 2006
Reading the guest book I thought I could add that I photographed a jersey tiger about two weeks ago also have seen many hummingbird hawksheads got a photo of one, also elephanthawkshead caterpillers on my fuchsias, I am in freshwater isle of wight.
bryan harris - 17 August 2006
Hello I found a moth and a caterpiller which I had never seen before and then surfed for info , found your site and identified both, a very good site ,have added to favs and will use often, thank you. Bryan harris
Ruth White - 17 August 2006
Thanks for this amazing site. I saw two beautiful moths on my pineapple mint and had no idea what they were. Couldn't find them in library book but on your site I did. Pyrausta Aurata, so very pretty. UKmoths has kindled my interst in these lovely insects.
Trace Bloomfield - 16 August 2006
Yesterday the 15th Aug 2006, we saw what looked like a miniture version of a hummingbird.By looking it up on the internet we discovered your site telling us we have seen a hummingbird hawk moth.We have never ever seen one before and when we got home tonight we found one flying around inside our conservatory!We did let it out.We live in a village near Bury St Edmunds Suffolk. They have been feeding on flowers in our garden.
steve warcup - 16 August 2006
although i am not particulary fond of moths i saw one yesterday that caught my eye, having visited the website and using the very helpful search engine, i was pleased to know that i had seen a great tiger, and being in leicester i thought it was quite strange when on the picture it said n.wales.

steve, 18
Tony Canning - 15 August 2006
More on Jersey Tiger Moths - there is a thriving colony in SE23 centred around Lewisham's Devonshire Road Nature Reserve, (where I work as a volunteer). First recorded in 2004 they have been very common in 2005 and 2006.

It seems they are spreading throughout S London..
Clare Dickins - 15 August 2006
A really useful site - helped me to identify a plume moth where books had failed!
Richard Kilvington - 15 August 2006
I found this rather large catterpiler whilst doing some gardening. I have never seen one as big as this before, so rather intreged I thought I would find out what it was. this site was the only one that was easy enough for me to navigate around and actualy find what I was looking for.
Thank you for making it so easy
Janet Milner - 14 August 2006
Very interesting site but sadly hasn't answered my querry. We have a most unusual caterpillar in the garden about 21/2\" long, fat pencil thickness with a typical hawkmoth hook to its tail. The head is strongly marked looking like a snake with two eyes quite far back surrounded by elongated yellow patches. The body has black/dark segment lines. It is chomping away happily on a fushia shrub in the back garden. Its over all colour is dark purply brown As a child I saw many death-head moths and their caterpillers as my father kept bees and this is not a death-head.

Please help me identify this caterpiller
alec cheney - 13 August 2006
As a recent \"convert\" to mothing I have found your site very helpful in helping me with identification. I have taken some photos and would post them on your site if I could find how to do it.
Stephen Elcoate - 13 August 2006
Excellent site, used nearly every day.
Phil Hickerton - 13 August 2006
I have had Elephant Hawk moths feeding on my Fuschias for the last 5 years. Have they been forced to change their diet?
Janet Davidson - 13 August 2006
Can anyone close to Tameside, Ashton under Lyme to be precise, help me out please. I run an environmental group for children between 7 and 11, we have decided to look at moths for our October meeting. We are just about to purchase a moth trap for the occasion. Though we know it is not the best time of the day to look at them, we meet at 10 am till 12 noon, we may need some help identifing what we do catch. Any one willing to lend a hand? Please contact me on the above email address. Ta.
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