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
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(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)
Brindled Beauty
(Very frequent)
Rannoch Brindled Beauty
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Frequent)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Regular)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Frequent)
March Moth
(Frequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Frequent)
Dotted Border
(Frequent)
Common Heath
(Frequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Frequent)
Herald
(Frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Lead-coloured Drab
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Grey Birch
(Regular)
Sword-grass
(Regular)
Powdered Quaker
(Regular)
Dark Sword-grass
(Regular)
Oak Nycteoline
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Larch Pug
(Infrequent)
Ochreous Pug
(Infrequent)
Orange Underwing
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
Oak Beauty
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Puss Moth
(Infrequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Infrequent)