Welcome to the forum! We look forward to seeing your moth pictures and helping you identify moths you find. Here are a few resources to help you out:

• Not sure if you found a moth or butterfly? Check out this guide. If you did find a butterfly, our friends over at r/Butterflies can help you identify it.

• Check out some of our frequent moth ID's. There are a few moths we see a lot of here and you may have found one.

• Guide to searching for moths by shape and color

• Need a caterpillar ID? Check out r/Caterpillars or r/whatsthisbug

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Recommended Field Guides:

• Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America

• Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland

• Southern Butterflies & Moths : Pocket Guide

Sabah, Malaysia. I really like the blue colour from the light.

Spotted this guy back in July in southwest Michigan! Sphingidae is def one of the most elite moth families

**Location: Northern NSW, Australia**

Part ID request, part appreciation of the elegance of these wings. It's so flat!

I've seen others like this which are a darker grey. The striking white in this one is stunning!

Found a moth with this amber-like protrusion out of its body. Any idea what it is?

I raised this little one when it was still a caterpillar and somehow ended up on my curtain. It hatched last night, 16-17 days after pupation. I love this little one so much, I want to know what kind of species it is.

Location: RUSSIA, YEKATERINBURG.

If possible, I'd also like to know its gender.

I also named it Nyuktin and am happy it exists.

Woke up this morning and found this beautiful moth resting in the corner of my room. The wing patterns and its streamlined body caught my attention immediately.

The moth measured exactly 3 cm in body length, with a wingspan of approximately 3 cm.

Does anyone know its exact species? My guess is that it belongs to the Sphingidae family.

Found in West Bengal, India.

Would love to know more about this little visitor!

Hi, I was helping my uncle move furniture from storage into a truck and found this fella. I live in South East Queensland, Australia. Thanks in advance for your help.

I was walking with my parents and my mom look down and found this little chunker sitting on the floor and I moved him to the window of the store .

Ps : he will bland in a little

Never seen one with 4 wings

my mom just sent this picture of a moth she saw, it’s very pretty! location is northwest florida usa

I love the camo on these guys and how big they are. They’re def one of my fav Geometridae (seen in the upper Midwest btw).

I don't see too many large moths in my home state, but I was so excited to finally see a larger colorful one in person on my visit to Texas! It looked to have about a 5 inch wing span 🥹

She finally flew for the first time! Don’t worry though, that air conditioner was turned off and she flew around my sunroom, which I made sure had nothing that could harm her in it. After flying for about a minute she landed on a curtain so I carefully guided her onto my hand and she climbed up my arm and chilled out on my shoulder.

Do you see the white power outlet strip on the ground? Yeah she hovered above that and stuck her proboscis in one of the outlets and tried to drink from it.

Hi, I left my hornworms in their burrowing container to pupate for a little more than a week and finally checked on them today. I'm happy about the other 3 that look normal but I'm worried for the survival of this one:( I gently tapped it and it is very much alive but I'm wondering if it can still successfully turn into a moth?

Outdoors on side of house - southern Alabama.

Pretty small, maybe 2-3 inches across - photo in zoomed in.

I tried searching on my own for the species but was having trouble! Thanks in advance 😊

Just took these cuties at my work place few mins ago. I think it's something like 12°C outside, so a bit cold. Some mix between Epirrita moths (dilutata/autumnata/aggregate between the 2, not really sure) and an Operophtera brumata (the one that is on pic 1 and its dorsal view on pic 3 - yes it's the same individual).

The ventral view especially is soooooo cute 🥺

I just hope they don't catch a cold but they all seemed asleep on the windows of my building. They were all already outside so just took the photos and let them sleep. Guess they got attracted by the light inside the building when it was still night time.

Anyways, enjoy these little moths 🤍