Other Dorset sites

• Portland Bird Observatory - excellent site, updated daily, primarily birds, but migrant and dispersive moths noted

• Durlston Country Park - general natural history, including moths and butterflies

• Dorset Environmental Records Centre - the centre where all county flora and fauna records are maintained

• Butterfly Conservation Dorset Branch - Butterflies and some moths, and also generous supporters of this web site.

Identification/photo sites                                                                                Mothing equipment

• UK Moths                An excellent all round id site                                      Anglian Lepidopterists Supplies

• UK Leps                  Jeff Higgott's micro site                                             Bioquip

• Leaf mines               British Leaf Mining Fauna                                          Paul Batty  

• Caterpillars              Caterpillar ID site.                                                     Watkins and Doncaster

• Eggs, Larvae and Pupae of Butterflies and Moths

• Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa 

• Hawkmoths of the Western Palearctic  

• Mothshots                Great pictures of moths around the UK      

Recording schemes

• Moth Count             NMRS - The National Moth recording scheme

• Garden Moths         The GMS has been recording moths since 2003, and has now expanded to a national scheme

• National Moth Night The site for the annual recording event

Other useful sites

• Atropos                   Magazine and website - mainly moths, butterflies and dragonflies

• Apollo Books           Publisher specialising in entomological books

• Local weather          Will it rain?  Use the link then save as a favourite, with your own local postcode.

• Mapmate                 A useful recording and mapping program.

• Migrant moths          A site detailing recent migrant moth sightings.

• Pemberley Books     Excellent bookshop specialising in natural history books, entomology in particular.

• Saharan dust site     Useful to see if migrants are likely to be deposited with dust from the continent

Other County and area sites