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Colin Treweke - 25 May 2006

I have just recently found your web site and it looks great,

Mary Hogan - 22 May 2006

I am the Foundation Stage Manager in a Liverpool primary school. The Nursery children discovered a moth in a transition stage and we used this website to help identify it as a Lime Hawk-Moth, which are apparently common in the London area, but not so often sighted up north. We were very excited about our find and put it in a tank for the day, watching it change into a moth. We will send a photo to the site.

Peter Andrew Turner - 22 May 2006

wonderful Site, have used it before,but I thought I would sign in this time, cheers for a great site.

Luke Stanford - 17 May 2006

Thank you for helping me with my moth project, it is very nearly finished. The two caterpillars are still at school and doing OK. On the first day I took them in, the teacher showed the tubs to the class and couldn't find the caterpillars and so told the class that the poo was the eggs. We are now trying to find out the smallest and biggest moth in the UK.

Jeremy Stewart - 16 May 2006

What an excellent site! We have just found a gorgeous lime hawk moth in our kitchen and are hoping it will survive the day until our children return from school. I would like to know how long one of these moths lives naturally and what it feeds upon.

ktee - 11 May 2006

Very useful site. Just found a beautiful moth in garden, and your site identified it as a Lime hawk-moth

Thanks

jeanette slater - 10 May 2006

I found an elephant hawk moth last august have kept it all winter while it was a crysalis now i'm not sure when to put it out to see if it turns into a moth can anyone help. I'd hate to loose it now with having it so long. PS like your website

Harry Turbyfield - 8 May 2006

While carrying out refurbishment work on an older property to-day 8-5-06 we discovered in the loft a mating pair of moths hanging from one of the rafters and joined together in such a way as to form a diamond shape. We also found a further three moths within the loft. Not knowing anything about them and thinking they were rather unusual, I decided to see what I could find out on the net, thankfully I came across your site and I can now report back to my colleagues, identified as lime hawk moths and not rare at all except there are no lime trees in the area we found them.
Many thanks for your interesting site.

kelly ward - 4 May 2006

My father recently found an Moth unfortunatley it was dead but in excelent condition. After looking at your web site i found it was an Elephant Hawk Moth. I find moth Facinating and beautiful and enjoyed looking though your web site.

Carol Fitsall - 3 May 2006

Great Site - Just Identified a male Emperor Moth (in my books they only show females) - Will Come again - Thanks

www.fotoplatforma.pl/en - 2 May 2006

Very usefull website to identify
my butterfly photos

May Webber - 30 April 2006

Great website! I enjoy looking at all the wonderful pictures! Also excellent for information! A site I shall always be visiting!

David Ford - 14 April 2006

Nice site. Have a place in Spain and wanted to research the processionary caterpillar. Will be watching for it now and hope to get some good photos, especially in procession.

Norma - 14 April 2006

Have been trying to identify a moth we found in the greenhouse on April 13th.It must have pupated in the soil of an over wintering potplant.After trawling through numerous books and web sites I found UK moths. Brilliant! There it was in your top 20, excellent photo, no doubt about it. It was an Angle Shades.

Roddy Forsyth - 13 April 2006

A few minutes before midnight on April 12, 2006, I was watching a movie alone in my cottage in Argyll when I was startled by something fluttering around one of the lamps. It was large and I thought at first that it might be a bat but when I looked more closely I found that it was a moth. Thanks to the wonders of the internet and your site I am able to identify it as a male Emperor Moth - very beautiful and vivid, the first I have ever seen.
I thought that it must have survived from last summer, but according to your classification, Tigers are on the wing at this time of year, so I will try to usher it out the door tomorrow.
Many thanks for the effort you have put into the site, which I have added to my favourites.

Stuart Ogilvy - 6 April 2006

An absolutely invaluable site. It has been indispensable over the last twelve months. Having just purchased a moth trap I expect to be using it even more in the future.

David Slattery - 4 April 2006

Just a beginner trying to learn the basics.

Bronwen Tickner (Mrs) - 2 April 2006

I was glad to find a way of identifying moths that visit my garden. Last year I had the pleasure of the Hummingbird Hawkmoth in the summer. Yesterday (1st April - and No, this isn't an April Fool!) there was a similar moth in the garden with long proboscis but not nearly as big as the Hummingbird. The body was brown and furry and the wings transparent with a black line through the centre. The wings were a swept back style. I wonder if this is the young of the Hummingbird. Your pictures did not seem to show whether the moth changed at all after emerging.

john j kelly - 25 March 2006

informative and comprehensive site. I'll be back.Thanks

Sumin Kang - 19 March 2006

I think this web is very fasanating to look at but i'd prefer it as more colourful with more bigger words than now. I'd PREFER it.

helen - 17 March 2006

this site really helped me with my 'animals by night' project for school thanx a bunch x x

michael brennan - 27 February 2006

i wud just like to know y is it that moths only come out in the summer.

David Bomford (Adelaide South Australia) - 24 February 2006

G'day from Aussi, enjoyed the site. I was looking for a reference to the \"Bomfords Emperor Moth\" which was named after Peter Bomford. Didn't find it but I'll keep looking. Thanks David B

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Philip Barton - 16 February 2006

It has been good to rekindle the joy of my youth by saving a caterpillar that inadvertently found its way into my living room. It pupated almost immediately and today, almost three weeks later, it emerged. I used UK moths to identify it and was pleased to find out that it is an Angle Shades moth, not too common in my area (Wirral), and new to my eyes. Many thanks for a very well put-together and useful site. I will set our friend free tonight!

Eve Rogers - 10 February 2006

hey, boss site, i love moths!!!

(Dr) Martin Skirrow - 9 February 2006

What an amazing collection of images! Having collected moths, mainly in the Malvern (Worcs) area from about 1945-52, I am returning to the subject in my dotage and will be conducting a light trap survey throughout this year on my daughter's recently acquired farm in south Worcestershire. The farm has some fine unimproved meadows. Anyway, your website will be of great assistance in this venture, especially with the 'micros'. Records are all going to the Worcs Biol Records Centre. Best wishes and thanks for such a valuable public service.

hamish anderson - 7 February 2006

Enjoyed your site. Was trying to identify a moth which had very pronounced markings which I found on the door on sunday. I thought it might be a pale brindled beauty and the moth books I have are not clear.
Your photos helped to confirm. I live in Moray so a little way from you.
Hamish

Fred Slatter - 5 February 2006

am a member of Devon Moth Group and have just come on line, so this is my first tentative visit to ukmoths (but ot my last)

Phil Owens - 11 January 2006

I visited the UK in sept and took some photo's of Britian's Moths and I used this site to try and ID them

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