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)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Frequent)
Streamer
(Frequent)
May Highflyer
(Frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Dotted Border
(Frequent)
Herald
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Chestnut
(Frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Infrequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Small Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Common Pug
(Infrequent)
Common Heath
(Infrequent)
Puss Moth
(Infrequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Buff Ermine
(Infrequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Infrequent)
Small Square-spot
(Infrequent)
True Lover's Knot
(Infrequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)