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Valerie Barnes - 26 July 2003

Super site! Had spent a long time looking at books trying to identify the pale cream moth that has spent the day on my front door frame - no luck! then I found this site. It turned out that my visitor was a swallow-tailed moth! Many thanks

Valerie Barnes

Andrew Leverett - 26 July 2003

A superb website which is a massive help with a difficult but thoroughly absorbing subject. I am considering purchasing the complete set, (in softback) of The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland (Hesperiidae to Nymphalidae) published by Harley Books. It would be a big outlay for me, would it be worthwhile? I already have the excellent Guide by Bernard Skinner. Any advice would be appreciated.

Andrew Parsonage - 25 July 2003

Your site is wonderful !!

I have spent months looking through the shelves of book shops to find the necessary info and equipment to allow me to get more involved in this subject to no avail.

Now I can !

Thanks

tish wood - 24 July 2003

thank you i have just had the pleasure of seeing a hummingbird hawk-moth
it was drinking from my bizzy lizzy's which is how i got to see it as we have lots of them ,your site is grate,fasinating,and so easy to use. thanx
Tish Wood
Ely,Cambs

Burgeon - 24 July 2003

C'est extraordinaire. Vous avez ainsi permis ? beaucoup de personnes de voir la richesse de ce petit morceau de nature. Merci !
Burgeon.

Hannah James - 24 July 2003

I thought that this site was excellent, especially as you don't have to register, as you do for most sites of this type. It is detailed and easy to use.

Jean - 24 July 2003

Thank you for the suggestion that the moth outside our home was a Large Emerald, but viewing the picture its nothing like what I saw. The wings stood away from the body and looked just like verigated ivy leaves in shape, if a little mishapen. The bar round the end of he large head is similar though. I don't think it could be Large Emerald because the wing were a totally different configuration.

Any other suggestions please?

Thank you

John Bainbridge - 23 July 2003

A wonderful site. Thank you. Today I saw a male Oak Eggar apparently basking in the evening sunshine on the ground at a service station in Hailsham East Sussex. In 2000 I watched a Hummingbird Hawk Moth in the same town, the only one I have ever seen. From your site I now know that they were common in that year.

Mick Pearce - 23 July 2003

Found your site looking for an ID on a green moth, which turns out to be a Large Emerald: common apparently but I've never seen one before (we're in north Cumbria in open country). Lovely, well-designed website -- many thanks.

M.

Jean Dines - 23 July 2003

I wander if you could help me identify a moth which was beside my front door the other night?

It was approx. 2 to 2 1/2 inches across. It's wings looked like an pale verigated, but not very regular shaped, ivy leaf. Round it's head, but separate from, was a thin bar. I have never seen one before although my husband thinks he may have done. It's certainly not familiar to me, have I just been unobservant all these years or is it fairly unusual for the Hertfordshire area?

Thank you.

Peter Newmark - 22 July 2003

This morning on a commuter train from South London, the presence of a very large moth perched on a seat was keeping people well away from the that or the adjoining seat. On arrival at Victoria, and guessing that the moth would not survive too long in the train, I 'rescued' it and released it in St James Park. Having memorised its appearance, I found your site but it was not working this morning. Now it is, and there was the moth at the top of your top 20 most common questions. Thanks for making it easy to identify it as a poplar hawk moth - what a magnificent creature.

Derek R Manchee - 22 July 2003

Very Clear, comprehensive , &Easy site to use, but MY problem is to identify a particular catterpillar found 0n a fuchia plant.
Who can help please?.

gordon isaac - 21 July 2003

brill site love all the photos whoud like to keep in thuch with other like minded enthustast,s gordon

Jane Turner - 21 July 2003

Just stumbled onto this site. Its great. I know next to nothing about moths and I find this a great help.

Kevin Brady - 20 July 2003

I have looked at your site as i have a moth in my house that is beautiful
to look at,wish i had a camera it is a yellow soft white colour quite small
almost perfect looking like a soft look of silk.
It almost like its painted as pastel.
I live in the city london shoreditch.
i looked through every photo on your site and can not find a match??
Kevin Brady.

steve true - 19 July 2003

only just found site.its been of great use to confirm sitting

Sandra Reynolds - 19 July 2003

Fantastic pictures! I'm very jealous of everyone who has been lucky enough to see a humming-bird hawkmoth this year - I'm still hoping that one will visit my Suffolk garden!

Leppikins - 18 July 2003

Have just started photographing moths this week with a digital camera - have identified 6 species from your site and working my way through looking for another 5! excellent site, never knew there were so many beautiful moths :) thank you,

Jim Swanson - 18 July 2003

superb photos of moths!

Holden Bayes - 18 July 2003

I have just started using a digital camera and I am interested
in trying out the macro on moths and butterflies.
As an asst.warden on the National Trust we record Flaura and Fauna
on each of our properties.
This is the best site I have found on the web about moths.

Holden Bayes.

andrea wright - 18 July 2003

thank you for answering the question of what is inhabiting our garden in cambrigdeshire.they are hummingbird hawk moths and they appear anytime of day or night.

Linda Roberts - 17 July 2003

I saw for the first time on Tues 15th July the Hummingbird moth dancing around my hanging baskets. Facinating and without your beginners page I would not have known what that beautiful creature was. Thank you.

David Lippiett - 16 July 2003

Superb site.....HOWEVER,it is still taking hours trying to identify Moths.I have several Moth Books including Skinner's but not sure I have enough Years left in my life to name them!!!!!!I thought some of the European Frits were difficult but.......Any Tips?

David Bracegirdle - 15 July 2003

I found a bright green moth 2 days ago in a farmhouse by Killin in Perthshire and none of the company had seen such a moth before. I will send on a picture once I haved reduced the file size, and would appreciate your help to identify it.
I am not a moth expert at all, but this one was a little puzzling.
David
by the way, your site is excellent

Mary Western - 15 July 2003

This morning I saw a moth which using this website I have identified as a swallowtail moth. Thankyou as I have spent much time searching for through my books. However you say it is strictly nocturnal but it flew onto my kitchen windowsill where it sat for 1/2 hour before flying off again, is this unusual? I have a photo

david crowther - 15 July 2003

are there any poisonous moths in britain?your not going to believe this but i accidently swallowed one last night, i think it was a swallow tailed moth(ourapteryx sambucaria).

Carin - 14 July 2003

Great looking site

Klara Kullers - 14 July 2003

Hi there ,
very helpful - thanks for providing this information,
greets Klara Kullers

Amanda Smith - 14 July 2003

Yesterday evening this huge moth, I had never seen anything like it before. Thanks to your very easy to use site I now know it was a hummingbird moth.

Julian Branscombe - 12 July 2003

Your site has just made the web worthwhile for me. I have visited it for the first time tonight, and have spent a couple of hours in rapture, looking at the micros. I recognised various familiar micros that have been turning up in my trap, and I found what I was looking for - a name for the wonderful yellow and dark thing - Oecophora bractella - which graced my trap this week. Thank you very much!

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