Moths of the Month (Adult Macros)
The National Moth Recording Scheme's database has records for each of the species for a vice county for a given month. The photographs are taken from the Scottish County Moth Recorders' Voucher Archive. If the Archive has a photo of the species for the Vice County then that will be shown, otherwise a photo from another Scottish VC will display.
A simple algorithm has been used to provide an indication of abundance of the species in that month (not of its abundance generally) for records since January 2000. This has been based on the number of records (not the counts within records) that the moth has for that month in that VC compared to the
total counts for that VC in that month for all species. Some inappropriate categories may therefore be shown, but any species with 'Very Unlikely', or for beginners 'Unlikely' against them should be verified with your CMR.
Yellow Horned
(Frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Very frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Very frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Very frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
V-Pug
(Frequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Oak Beauty
(Frequent)
Puss Moth
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Herald
(Frequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Regular)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Regular)
Least Black Arches
(Regular)
Cream Wave
(Infrequent)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Regular)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Regular)
Common Pug
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
March Moth
(Regular)
Dotted Border
(Regular)
Grey Birch
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Pale Pinion
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Regular)
Dark Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Infrequent)
Oak Nycteoline
(Infrequent)