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Very interesting and helpful site. We will soon be starting a wildlife garden at our school (Guard House Primary) We will no doubt be able to identify any moths we find are attracted to our grounds by using your web page.

I have a question. What do moths eat? I ask this because I took a Wooly Bear and made an artificial environment for him. He went into his cocoon and came out way too early. I want to know how to keep him alive untill spring, so I can let him loose.

I am just getting interested in moths and doing a web search came across your excellent site .
would welcome info on other sites that may be useful

Excellent website!
Please could you put a link to ours, the North Wales Branch of Butterfly Conservation? (www.northwalesbutterflies.org.uk) I've already had a link to yours since we went live a year ago, but not got round to using you myself before!

great website, brilliant photo's.

Fantastic site. Is there anyone in my county of Yorkshire who shares my hobby. Does anyone know of a club for Entomology.

What a great site - well organised and well-laid out. Must have taken you ages...great job!

I am using this great site as my digital reference library for my digital photos taken this year of moths in my town.Excellent site!!

i wanna more information about the moths along with the pothographs.sine i have taken up the project of the moth

Beautiful lime hawk moth found in our living room after bringing in some pots from the garden shed. I am not at all knowledgable about moths so this web site was very useful in identifying this one. Presumably the larva thought it was springtime in our heated house. Is there any point in feeding it (what with?) I am reluctant to release it outside this frosty morning.

We could do with some expert instruction at chasewater wild life group.
Next meeting 22 Nov. at Burntwood Rugby Club.You would be very welcome.

A moth we didn't recognise flew into our house, after exhausting our insect books we tried Google. Yours was the first site we tried and there at number 16 in your top 20 was our moth (who is now flying free outside again). Thanks very much, we know where to look next time.

brilliant site! lots of information as well for beginners as for die-hard moth-tickers!
i noticed that Conistra rubiginosa is not on the brittish list, this year 2 specimens were found on different locations in the south of West-Flanders (Belgian province) and these stated the first two sightings for the province.
will this be the next new brittish species?

a picture of 1 of the 2 can be seen here:
http://users.pandora.be/free/2004/zwartvlekwinteruil.jpg

picture taken by Free Claerbout

greetings from belgium!
pieter vantieghem
for the dutch-speaking people; look at http://www.vzwlagare.be/vwgforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1952&whichpage=14
for recent sightings & picture from our region!

Site helped me identify Belted Beauty, which I found 'in cop' on the isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, May 2004. Thank you

Congratulations to this impressive presentation which is an important tool for amateurs and scientists

what a fantastic site. i am so glad you were the first one i visited i have no need to visit any others. all the information i needed was immediately available. i was desperate to identify a HUGE moth i found in our back garden. on first seeing it i thought it was a dead baby bird or mouse but on closer inspection realised it was a moth. like i say it was huge and my children and i could not believe our eyes. it was fantastic to see although most of the day it did not move and i presumed it dead until about ten hours later it had opened its wings and was moving them slightly. it was a very cold day (yesterday, i.e.tuesaday 26.10.04) so i brought it indoors and put it in a suitable container which seemed to make it liven up and it began moving around a little with its wings open which enabled us to see the fantastic markings on its body. we even saw its tongue which was extremely long. after a lot of studying it i referred to a collins gem guide book on butterflies and moths which seemed to indicate that it was a CONVOLVULUS HAWK but the picture wasn't a great likeness so at this point i decided to look for a site on the internet hoping for a more positive confirmation and as they say the rest is history! fantastic! your top 20 list confirmed 100% that it was a convolvulus hawk and the picture was an exact likeness. i have never taken one ounce of interest in moths or butterflies but after this recent find and thoroughly studying your site feel compelled to learn more about these lovely creatures.
unfortunately not every story has a happy ending and sadly \"mr.moth\" as my childred call him died late this afternoon.
have you got any suggestions as to what i can do with 'him' as i don't just want to throw him away as he is such a fantastic specimen.
and also was bringing him indoors a contributing factor to his death and if so what should i have done?
your comments would be appreciated
with many thanks for taking the time to read this extremely long e-mail
and thanks again for a brilliant site
yours sincerely
sally

A gem of a site.

Viewed your site on advice from a friend. Super. Helped to identify several moths I was stuck on. Well done. Just what we need, including a very friendly format.

This is a great site! I found it in a roundabout way via a birders' site that mentioned the species I was looking at, Chloroclystis siterata. One just flew in my window and I have some digital photos. Can supply, and I think you probably have a female (?) on your site? I have a male. However, I am checking up now, as it may be a different species. I caught it in Highbury, London, so it is odd, as it is normally thought of as an uncommon woodland species.

Jim

An excellent site will visit it often. Paricularly like Micros are well catered for.

This was a wonderful 'find' today - a treasure trove of lovely images and useful information. Only wish I had found it before. Hope it helps to popularise this under-valued subject. Peter Holden

found a pale tussock moth caterpillar in the middle of morrisons car park in harrogate, north yorkshire. rescued it, brought it home and put in on the hazel tree in the garden.
Oct. 2004

This is my first visit to the site,very interesting.but could'nt find what we were looking for.

My 10 year old daughter found a fawn coloured moth,with horns or spikes down the middle of its back.We live up in Orkney,and have not seen 1 before.

very interested first visit

i woud like to know more about arctiid moths and specialists working on this area. Iam a researcher at zoological survey of india,kerala,india.
Your site is fascinating.
Waiting for a reply
Regards
Abhilash Peter

ok

Hi, I would just like to say thank you for putting together this excellent website. My 7 year old son is interested in nature and has at his insistence we have made the garden \"wild life friendly\". Consequently I am frequently faced with an unknown caterpillar and a child desperate to know what it is. Up until now I have usually failed in my attempts to identify the beasties. But at last, a well structured, informative site with lots of details of the caterpillars, not just the adults, in an easy to access format. Give yourself a star, I've just identified a \"pale tussock\" caterpillar and my son will be thrilled when he gets home from school. What is even nicer is that although he is severely dyslexic he will be able to use your website whereas he found most of the published literature bewildering.
Thanks again, we will be back,
Linda Whybrow

A very useful site has been a great help to me and I am very glad I found it.

I went for a walk with my son on sunday - we live near to Hothfield Common, Nr Ashford Kent
I called the council offices who gave me the number of the local warden he tried to idenfity the larva but without luck.

I found you web site and after looking at your top 20 found the larva - brillant looks like a chestnut outer when on the ground

2028 Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda (Linnaeus, 1758)

May i ask you to add your site to local wildlifes sites i,e, ashford borough council 01233 637 311 as it;s really good

I'm now looking for a spider we found with a yellow body on a corse bush

Really good - photo;s are excellent

this site is just what an amture amature like myself needs i do however have a jpg of an unusual catapillar but it is over 3ook and i would like to know what it is.