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Ann Barnett - 7 July 2004
I enjoyed looking at your website. Unfortunately I did not see any green moths and I am trying to identify a moth of this colour which I found in my bathroom. As I live in Wales I wondered if you can advise me where on the internet I can find a list of moths that I can actually see and not just a list of names?
Angie Hatchett - 7 July 2004
What a grand site! Saw a moth in my garden today that I had never seen before and identified it on your site as a Hummingbird Hawkmoth. What a marvellous sight, hovering over the lavender. Proboscis easily seen. Seemed to behave just like a Hummingbird. Wish I had been able to get a photo, but it was so quick! Like your site and will use it again if I see other moths that I don't recognise. Many thanks.
Mark - 6 July 2004
Excellent site, bookmarked and will pass onto other like minded friends. Thanks.
Gareth Warren of Cumbria - 5 July 2004
I have found a large gray moth about 1.5 to 2 inches width and about 1 inch long, with a fury body and yellow attenia which are red under neith.
Please coul you tell me what it is?
Please coul you tell me what it is?
george & julie franklin - 5 July 2004
Hummingbird Hawk-moth:- this moth has been coming to our garden for the past few days, and we did not know what it was until we looked up it on your site, which was very easy to used thankyou
jean smith - 5 July 2004
Found the site very user friendly. Able to identify Elephant Hawk-moth without any problem.
Easy access around the site too.
Thankyou. I shall certainly be back
Easy access around the site too.
Thankyou. I shall certainly be back
clifford barnaby - 1 July 2004
What a lovely site.
I sought it out because yesterday I saw a moth on a kerbline in Royston.
It was 50mm in length. Rather plump.Furry and white with black spots,which were also prominantly large.
Have still to seek it's name out,by using your site if I can.
However.
Your site is realy excellant.
If you could advise I would be most greatfull.
Thankyou very much.
Cliff.
I sought it out because yesterday I saw a moth on a kerbline in Royston.
It was 50mm in length. Rather plump.Furry and white with black spots,which were also prominantly large.
Have still to seek it's name out,by using your site if I can.
However.
Your site is realy excellant.
If you could advise I would be most greatfull.
Thankyou very much.
Cliff.
Siobhan - 30 June 2004
Hi UK moths from North West Scotland...
I wonder if anyone can help identify a couple of large moths in my garden.
I have today photographed a large brown pair of moths resting on a wooden planter in the garden. They are overlapping, about 1.5 inches across with wings folded back in a rested position. They have cream coloured legs and a cream band around the head. Their shiny brown wings have a central white dot on each and their bodies are plump and about 1 inch long and of a grey velvety texture....
Many thanks!
I wonder if anyone can help identify a couple of large moths in my garden.
I have today photographed a large brown pair of moths resting on a wooden planter in the garden. They are overlapping, about 1.5 inches across with wings folded back in a rested position. They have cream coloured legs and a cream band around the head. Their shiny brown wings have a central white dot on each and their bodies are plump and about 1 inch long and of a grey velvety texture....
Many thanks!
Tina Reddick - 30 June 2004
Very useful for confirming identifications
mr m carty - 29 June 2004
we saw an elephant hawk moth in our garden in preston lancs and we did not know what it was but we quickly found it on your website from the information about it it seems a long way north
David Clark - 29 June 2004
I found the site because I have discovered an unusual (to me, uneducated in moth terms) larval form of what I believe to be a moth, on a plum tree and I am trying to identify it. Your reference library is far too big to know where to begin!
It looks just like a twig, and is sitting on a leaf, seemingly not feeding. I'll take some photos and find out how to send them in.
It looks just like a twig, and is sitting on a leaf, seemingly not feeding. I'll take some photos and find out how to send them in.
phil allsopp - 28 June 2004
I have identified 2 moth caterpillars not in my book,thanks for your help.3 Pebble Prominent on a Willow, and 8 or 9 Mullein caterpillars on a Buddleia in my garden in North Pembrokeshire.
Ray Newman - 28 June 2004
Very Interesting site and beautifully laid out
Andy Webb - 27 June 2004
Took some photos of I believe a slender scotch burnet in dorset. when photos developed I could confirm if any one is interested. Andy
rosa b - 27 June 2004
Thanks it was so nice to be able to put a name to the beautiful red moth in the garden
Tony Towner - 27 June 2004
Hello.
Great Site.
Can anyone help me identify this moth? I have found a lovely orange/brown moth on my privet hedge. It prefers to rest with its wings open. The upper wings are rusty brown with a couple of dark brown wavy horizontal lines. The underwings are orange. It has a cerrated edge along the bottom of all the wings. Wingspan about 1\".
Great Site.
Can anyone help me identify this moth? I have found a lovely orange/brown moth on my privet hedge. It prefers to rest with its wings open. The upper wings are rusty brown with a couple of dark brown wavy horizontal lines. The underwings are orange. It has a cerrated edge along the bottom of all the wings. Wingspan about 1\".
anna nicolopulo - 27 June 2004
My granddaughter and I were out walking this morning in the local meadow (I live in Ipswich) and we spotted what looked like a red-winged moth with black spots on it.Any ideas what it could be.
Many thanks.
Anna
Many thanks.
Anna
Tony Hibbert - 26 June 2004
Many thanks. As usual it has been a delight to look at your website and learn more about moths.
kevin williams - 25 June 2004
thanks to your site my son and i have identified a privet hawk moth (but it also has deaths head type markings). can they appear to look similar.
Mike Griffiths - 25 June 2004
Congratulations on the site. This is my first full year of mothing and setting out a trap weekly. I have found the site very helpful to sort out some of the micro's, and searching the thumbnails has definitely made identifying groups a lot easier for me. Thanks to you I've progressed from raw novice to incompetent enthusiast. I hope to get better. Keep up the good work.
Mike
Mike
Erich Schn?ll - 25 June 2004
Hello,
congratulations for this excellent website, its for me one of the best sites i ever seen.
greetings from austria
Erich
congratulations for this excellent website, its for me one of the best sites i ever seen.
greetings from austria
Erich
Manis - 25 June 2004
Great website! I enjoyed browsing through it.
josh maynard - 23 June 2004
great site very informative fantastic photos. i saw a lunar hornet moth in the garden today in exmouth east devon i discovered this was very rare are there any other possibilities for what it might be. if it is lunar hornet would it have been blown in by the winds?
Joseph Rhodes - 23 June 2004
This is a great website very informative and easy to follow. I particularly like the top twenty idea, especially for someone like myself starting to take a real interest in Moths & Butterflies
Thank you for your efforts.
Joe Rhodes
Thank you for your efforts.
Joe Rhodes
Una D\\\\\\ - 22 June 2004
I found my exotic new garden guest on this site after it was recommended to me. My visitor was a hummingbird hawk moth and the photos on this site caught it long enough for me to see what is a blur in real life. Thanks
Jez - 22 June 2004
Great Site
andrew.colgate - 20 June 2004
we have recently been overun by small pretty paterned moths no more than half an inche wide can you help?
Mel Jenkins - 19 June 2004
Dear UKmoths,
A few times in the past few weeks, I've been seeing the most beautiful moth around my home, and depsite being a complete novice, I was determined to find out what it could be. And now, thanks to your very helpful BEginners Top20, I now know - the lovely cinnabar moth. So distinctive - I wondered why I had never seen one before, but now I also know this too- it's nocturnal. Wonder why I've seen it around so frequently this year? Thanks for the info.
A few times in the past few weeks, I've been seeing the most beautiful moth around my home, and depsite being a complete novice, I was determined to find out what it could be. And now, thanks to your very helpful BEginners Top20, I now know - the lovely cinnabar moth. So distinctive - I wondered why I had never seen one before, but now I also know this too- it's nocturnal. Wonder why I've seen it around so frequently this year? Thanks for the info.
Peter Shale - 19 June 2004
I had taken some photos of what I thought was a broad-boardered bee hawk moth whilst on holiday last week in Norfolk (Wells Next to Sea) and wanted some photographic confirmation - first time on the site, easy to use and photos and information excellent - It was what I thought - Thanks - I will be returning
Peter
Peter
adele kaye - 18 June 2004
VERRY HELPFULL FOR MY HOMEWORK THANKYOU
I WILL RECOMEND THIS SITE TO MY FRIENDS
I WILL RECOMEND THIS SITE TO MY FRIENDS