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Maureen Macdonald - 19 August 2002
Fascinating. Wanted to identify a caterpillar and could,nt find out how to do it.
Richard (Dick) Middleton - 18 August 2002
Am new to moths so much to learn. Have just found the photos of Pyrausta aurata and Pyrausta purpuralis most useful in convincing me that it was the former that I saw in my back garden this afternoon. This has certainly added a very useful tool to the identification process. Many thanks.
Fiona - 16 August 2002
Unfortunately, my flat has been infested with moths for at least 4 years now. The moths are beige in colour and I think they must be Brown House Moths, according to your picture gallery. Their favourite foods are carpet and clothes. However, I recently noticed that they seemed to have spread to the kitchen, a place devoid of their favourite snacks. But these 'kitchen moths' were half beige and half reddish-brown. I have reason to suspect that they eat Bran Flakes. Is this a completely unrelated species, or after four years, has a brand new moth species evolved? My kitchen could become a field study destination for budding entomologists and evolutionists. I wonder if anyone knows the answer. It would be annoying if my kitchen had to become a haven for rare moth species. And if these are more highly-evolved moths, who knows where it will end? The consequences could be very serious indeed.
Binda - 16 August 2002
fantastik website =-)
An amazing moth just came thru my window
biggest one ive ever seen
thanks to your Great website
im pretty sure it was the Popular Hawk-moth
theres a Emmelina monodactyla on my wall too =-)
im gonna come back here often and learn a bit about about these beautiful creatures
Binda
An amazing moth just came thru my window
biggest one ive ever seen
thanks to your Great website
im pretty sure it was the Popular Hawk-moth
theres a Emmelina monodactyla on my wall too =-)
im gonna come back here often and learn a bit about about these beautiful creatures
Binda
glynn anderton - 15 August 2002
great site, has helped to sort out one or two little arguements over ID,
thankyou.
thankyou.
Brooke Harvey - 14 August 2002
The sort of site I like; full of information, with a minimum of graphics. But I'm sorry to learn that the moth I saw yesterday for the first time in sixty-nine years is at the top of the Pop(u)lar list! One day I hope to identify a 25mm moth very well disguised as a birch? twig...
Best wishes
Brooke Harvey
Best wishes
Brooke Harvey
CHARLIE VINT - 14 August 2002
Brillant, identified a moth straight off, that I could not find in the
books
books
Mark Nowers - 14 August 2002
An absolutely fantastic site to eliminate any doubt cast by the pinned specimens shown in Skinners work. I am new this year to running a light trap and this is an essential addition to my researching unidentified species.
Jeff - 14 August 2002
Well laid out and informative site, well done. I had a striking looking moth in my garage, not knowing what it was i searched this website and found it straight away (Lime Hawk-moth), thanks..
richard hughes - 13 August 2002
wonderfully informative web-site thankyou.
Bob Crawford - 13 August 2002
Came across yopur site after seeing what i now know to be a white plume moth in my garden (yes i have bindweed) Thankyou
Phil Bacon - 13 August 2002
What an amazing site! I'd like to include a link to our site which features many UK moth publications.
Marc Potts - 11 August 2002
Hi Ian
I'm a total beginner, inspired to find out what I was looking at when I had a Swallowtail Moth in my garden, closely followed the next day by a Jersey Tiger (I live in Exeter).
Finding your site was a joy! Excellent lay out and easy to use.
I'm a total beginner, inspired to find out what I was looking at when I had a Swallowtail Moth in my garden, closely followed the next day by a Jersey Tiger (I live in Exeter).
Finding your site was a joy! Excellent lay out and easy to use.
Jenny Steel - 11 August 2002
Fantastic! I am running a moth trap to catalogue the species in my garden. The site has been of immense help in identification, especially confirming species that I am unsure about.
Nathanael Owen - 6 August 2002
Superb website, if only all websites were up to the standards of clarity and design that this one has throughout. Found all the info extremely useful.
great work.
great work.
Darren Hawkshaw - 6 August 2002
Just wanted to say what a beautifully designed, aesthetically well constructed, site you have here.
Well done, keep up the excellent work
Well done, keep up the excellent work
Ian Appleton - 4 August 2002
very informitive and great for beginners like me. Keep up the good work.
Chris Vowles - 3 August 2002
Found your excellent site after being overwhelmed by an influx of moths whilst working at a site in Stranraer. Many Garden Tiger moths have been attracted also orange and common swifts plus others to identify - didn't realise their were so many species.
Mrs Warner - 3 August 2002
Thankyou for creating an easy site to use (a beginner computer user!) - I easily identified the large Poplar Hawk moth found in my baby's nursery this morning!
David Whitewood - 1 August 2002
My lad just spotted one of these in their bathroom ;-)
Quite a beasty!
1980 Eyed Hawk-moth Smerinthus ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Robertsbridge
East Sussex.
Quite a beasty!
1980 Eyed Hawk-moth Smerinthus ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Robertsbridge
East Sussex.
Maureen Hailstone - 31 July 2002
Great site - I identified a Carcina quercina (Found on my landing) more eassily than I could in the Collins Pocket Guide. I suspected what it was but the book left me non too sure. The site photograph is spot on - no doubts. I have become 'Slightly involved' with trapping moths in the Gloucester area but early days yet. Thank you - I will be back.
Al Stewart - 31 July 2002
What a fantastic site! Well done that man! It must have taken years to catalogue and set up.
Darren - 30 July 2002
Great site, I found a really cool coloured moth, but all I knew about it was that it was pink so I found your site and now I know what it was. It is good to be able to use a site so easilly when I know nothing about moths. THANKS
Henry Simpson - 30 July 2002
Thank you very much. You have identified the Garden Tiger moth found alive in the air filter of my car today. I don't remember seeing one like this in the area before(Dundee, Scotland. Your site has been very helpful.
Ben Clayton - 30 July 2002
Thanks for helping me to identify the lime hawk and swallow tail moths. The former I found on a luggage rack on a train bound for Waterloo!
philip - 28 July 2002
this is the most informative web site dedicated to moths i,ve found to date
VampGirl - 28 July 2002
Superb, professional standard site. Kept me clicking for hours and hours!
andrew ashworth - 27 July 2002
have good current refs to macros and pyralids.difficult to access info on other micros.this site really helps fill the gap.hopefully more amateurs will be able to become familiar with the common/easy species.for all groups the excellent photos show moths in their natural posture,which can often identify a species in its own right.thanks alot.will use and contribute if i can.
P A Darley - 26 July 2002
Brill site, just what we`ve been looking for to sort out the Waves (Sterrha - sp) - thanks - P A and J R D
A Coyne - 26 July 2002
Have been searching the net and came across your site which is extensive and an absolute treasure of a find.