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 Unusual, or for beginners 'Unusual' against them should be checked with your CMR.
Yellow Horned
(Very unusual)
Emperor Moth
(Regular)
Garden Carpet
(Very unusual)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Very unusual)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Very unusual)
Flame Carpet
(Unusual)
Shoulder Stripe
(Regular)
Streamer
(Unusual)
May Highflyer
(Very unusual)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Very unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Very unusual)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Very unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Very unusual)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very unusual)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Very unusual)
Mottled Grey
(Frequent)
Water Carpet
(Unusual)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
V-Pug
(Very unusual)
Brindled Pug
(Very unusual)
Golden-rod Pug
(Unusual)
Barred Tooth-striped
(Very unusual)
Early Tooth-striped
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Early Thorn
(Regular)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Very unusual)
Rannoch Brindled Beauty
(Very unusual)
Dotted Border
(Very unusual)
Ringed Carpet
(Very unusual)
Grey Birch
(Very unusual)
Common Heath
(Very unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Very unusual)
Herald
(Very unusual)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Very unusual)
Knot Grass
(Very unusual)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Very unusual)
Chestnut
(Unusual)
Pale Pinion
(Very unusual)
Red Sword-grass
(Regular)
Brindled Ochre
(Regular)
Pine Beauty
(Unusual)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Unusual)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Very unusual)
Glaucous Shears
(Very unusual)
Marbled Coronet
(Very unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Very unusual)
Oak Nycteoline
(Very unusual)