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Bryan Jones - 5 August 2005
I wish I had found your site some twelve months ago when I started moth-trapping, would have saved many hours of poring through identification books, where drawings are not always accurate in colours. An excellent site, which I will use regularly in future
Suzanne - 5 August 2005
I found a large hawk moth type larva, 6.5cm long and pale pinky-brown in colour. It has white spots and a prominant blue tail spike.
I can't find one like it in your list, but it is so distinctive that it ought to be easy to identify!
I can't find one like it in your list, but it is so distinctive that it ought to be easy to identify!
Norman Agger - 5 August 2005
Thanks to you I was able to identify the cinnbar moth all the other web sites just show the caterpillar.
Susie - 2 August 2005
I really enjoyed the site and particularly the beginner's top 20 as only yesterday we found a Poplar Hawk Moth in our offices - spectacular - and didn't know what it was called, like you say.
I didn't realise how many 'beautiful'moths there are!
Susie
I didn't realise how many 'beautiful'moths there are!
Susie
Jake Allsop - 1 August 2005
A really helpful and attractive site. Thank you for all your efforts.
nigel saunders - 31 July 2005
i thought it was verey good i found some this year that i cant find in books if around again next year i will take photoes but your pictures are very good
Keith Herber - 31 July 2005
Very useful and informative, but unable to find \"Pleurota bicostella\" or thumbnail of this.
Robert Richardson - 28 July 2005
very informative but a little tricky sometimes to find what i was after when i could only put one thing into the desriptions search, be better if the search had various selections (tick boxes) you could make then the search would bring up all the ones with any or all of those selections.
David Ewart - 28 July 2005
Thanks for the useful site. I have been able to identify a Jersey Tiger which we found (deceased) in Teignmouth, Devon.
Max - 27 July 2005
Needed an ID on a moth we saw today in North Lincs. My pal said it was a Blood-vein, so before entering it on the LBC Bird Forum - Moths section, I needed to be sure he was correct. He was.
I cannot recognise any moths!!
I now know where to come for future identifications.
Thanks.
Max
I cannot recognise any moths!!
I now know where to come for future identifications.
Thanks.
Max
Mike Rollason - 27 July 2005
Very useful for identifying the visitors to my allotment, in this instance tyria jacobaeae caterpillars who now that I know they are not about to start on my precious cultivated plants I am quite happy to leave gobbling up the odd groundsel weed.
Sue Smith - 26 July 2005
hi,
a large moth flew into my bathroom last night, i have a photograph of it but can't attach it here. it was mainly brown mottled but the lower part of it's wings near the abdomen were red and black, initially i had thought it was a red admiral as it flew past. I have searched a couple of sites but am unable to find anything that resembles it but i am a complete novice! Would you be able to help me please? i can supply a photograph if necessary!
Thanks
Sue.
ps. i will be out of the country 1-29th August so if there is delay in any reply from me you now know why!
a large moth flew into my bathroom last night, i have a photograph of it but can't attach it here. it was mainly brown mottled but the lower part of it's wings near the abdomen were red and black, initially i had thought it was a red admiral as it flew past. I have searched a couple of sites but am unable to find anything that resembles it but i am a complete novice! Would you be able to help me please? i can supply a photograph if necessary!
Thanks
Sue.
ps. i will be out of the country 1-29th August so if there is delay in any reply from me you now know why!
Paul Harries - 25 July 2005
Great site which helped me identify a larva, which I'd never seen before, that turned out to be that of an Elephant Hawk Moth. Many thanks for your promp reply confirming what I had seen from the photos I sent.
Alan Harrison - 25 July 2005
An extremely useful and clear site, particularly if you know roughly what type of moth you have but can't pin down the species.
ARNIE Stalybridge Cheshire - 25 July 2005
We've been having quite a few \"sparrow sized\" moths(thats what my wife and daughter call them!!),coming in through the open windows at night during the recent hot weather.The only thing I can find that looks like them is a Great Dart which your site says is a rarity in the UK!!.We're nine miles S/E of Manchester.
Sue Timmins - 24 July 2005
Excellent site, I am delighted to identify so easily the Pop(u)lar Hawk Moth which I have found in my garden today.
Greg Howes - 24 July 2005
Excellent site, full of info
Dan Eatherley - 22 July 2005
Hi there
I am looking urgently for some caterillars for a film shoot and wondering whether you might have any leads.
These are our precise requirements :
i) approx 100 caterpillars needed - they cannot be returned to the owner after filming
ii) must not be clearly identifiable - ie non descript (eg Greta oto would have been perfect if it was long enough)
iii) must be at least 3.5 to 4cm long
iv) must not be distasteful to birds
v) must appear to be a deciduous tree-leaf-eater
vi) must be dull coloured - green, brown, grey - not vivid (eg like a hawkmoth or comma larva)
vii) must not have lots of spikes, bristles etc - we are looking for BORING caterpillars!!!
We don't mind a variety of species as long as the caterpillars fit the above criteria
We will pay handsomely for the right caterpillars!
Thanks
Dan
Dan Eatherley, Assistant Producer,
BBC Natural History Unit (NHU)
Email:
I am looking urgently for some caterillars for a film shoot and wondering whether you might have any leads.
These are our precise requirements :
i) approx 100 caterpillars needed - they cannot be returned to the owner after filming
ii) must not be clearly identifiable - ie non descript (eg Greta oto would have been perfect if it was long enough)
iii) must be at least 3.5 to 4cm long
iv) must not be distasteful to birds
v) must appear to be a deciduous tree-leaf-eater
vi) must be dull coloured - green, brown, grey - not vivid (eg like a hawkmoth or comma larva)
vii) must not have lots of spikes, bristles etc - we are looking for BORING caterpillars!!!
We don't mind a variety of species as long as the caterpillars fit the above criteria
We will pay handsomely for the right caterpillars!
Thanks
Dan
Dan Eatherley, Assistant Producer,
BBC Natural History Unit (NHU)
Email:
Peter Douglas, Hertfordshire. - 20 July 2005
Really useful site.
Quickly identified a Poplar Hawk-moth that I found (in numbers) at my childrens primary school, an incredibly patient insect that sat on my hand and allowed itself to be photographed, then had to be persuaded to climb off onto a tree.
Quickly identified a Poplar Hawk-moth that I found (in numbers) at my childrens primary school, an incredibly patient insect that sat on my hand and allowed itself to be photographed, then had to be persuaded to climb off onto a tree.
Nikki Barker - 18 July 2005
Fantastic web site and I used your beginners top 20 to try and find a pair of mating (I assume!) moths in my garden this weekend. I have deduced that they must be some sort of hawk moth - mostly because of the size (wingspan c. 80mm) and brown/grey colouring - but I can't find an exact match! The moth has a small patch of chestnut brown on the wing, a very fat body and is very still all day. I have a photo which I can send if you would be able to identify from that?
Many thanks,
Nikki Barker.
Milton Keynes.
Many thanks,
Nikki Barker.
Milton Keynes.
jonny - 17 July 2005
Excellent for identifying moths - I have 45 Privet Hawk Moth caterpillars and this is a useful site as I found out some of the plants that they eat.
Paddy Falvey - 15 July 2005
Excellent for my BASIS project
S.JONES - 12 July 2005
Anyone got any pictures of white Gypsy Moths ? Need to identify moth caught in light trap.
Cheers.
Cheers.
nicholas sheehy - 11 July 2005
looking for a moth i have never seen before
Silke. - 10 July 2005
Last night 10th July, having read some info on here, I set up a 20w black-light and a white sheet in a chum's garden, I must just say that it was a most interesting evening, we identified 12 species in 4 hours. I now want an M.V lamp and to get into the open (lots of rascally heath here in Surrey).
Thanks so much for setting up this site, I'll be back time and time again.
Thanks so much for setting up this site, I'll be back time and time again.
Carol Pattrick - 9 July 2005
Beautiful photos - helped me identify an elephant hawk moth. I thought it was some sort of hawk moth from details in a book I have, but there was no photo of it - so many thanks. We have honeysuckle flowering in the garden, so it was obviously attracted to that. It was great to be directed to your site via 'ask jeeves' rather than being directed to book sellers websites. Many thanks.
L R - 8 July 2005
Hi!
Moths freak me out big time but as I live in the country and like to have my windows open at night then they accost me on a regular basis while I surf the net.AAArgh!I am in the process of inventing Moth proof screens for my windows, for tonight I was menaced by none other than the Hawk Moth himself!I can only identify him thanks to your very nice and more importantly, simple site, and I assure you that he was six feet wide.The gods only know how he got in through my window which is much smaller.
Anyway, I managed to eject him alive, despite the temptation to throw the Yellow pages at his huge, hairy, scary, butt.
Any plans for a a moth agony column as I would be a regular visitor due to my ongoing problems with moths?
Best Wishes to you.LR
Moths freak me out big time but as I live in the country and like to have my windows open at night then they accost me on a regular basis while I surf the net.AAArgh!I am in the process of inventing Moth proof screens for my windows, for tonight I was menaced by none other than the Hawk Moth himself!I can only identify him thanks to your very nice and more importantly, simple site, and I assure you that he was six feet wide.The gods only know how he got in through my window which is much smaller.
Anyway, I managed to eject him alive, despite the temptation to throw the Yellow pages at his huge, hairy, scary, butt.
Any plans for a a moth agony column as I would be a regular visitor due to my ongoing problems with moths?
Best Wishes to you.LR
Stuart Pawsey - 7 July 2005
A remarkable site and one which bears many visits.
David Pugh-Clarke - 6 July 2005
Brilliant website. Just confirmed my garden sighting of Hummingbird Hawkmoth. Very cloudy conditions up here in Stoke-on-Trent.
DPC.
DPC.
charlie mourant - 6 July 2005
i thoroughly enjoy the site.
i need to buy a small hand lens for better id'ing
keep up the good work
charlie
i need to buy a small hand lens for better id'ing
keep up the good work
charlie