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
(Very frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Very frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Very frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
Puss Moth
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Very frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Very frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Streamer
(Frequent)
May Highflyer
(Regular)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Frequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Barred Tooth-striped
(Frequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Rannoch Brindled Beauty
(Frequent)
Dotted Border
(Frequent)
Ringed Carpet
(Regular)
Grey Birch
(Regular)
Common Heath
(Frequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Frequent)
Herald
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Regular)
Glaucous Shears
(Frequent)
Marbled Coronet
(Regular)
Least Black Arches
(Frequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
V-Pug
(Regular)
Knot Grass
(Regular)
Oak Nycteoline
(Regular)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
Brindled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)