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.
Pale Eggar
(Very frequent)
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Very frequent)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Very frequent)
July Highflyer
(Very frequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Very frequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Very frequent)
November Moth
(Very frequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Snout
(Very frequent)
Silver Y
(Very frequent)
Angle Shades
(Very frequent)
Haworth's Minor
(Very frequent)
Crescent
(Very frequent)
Frosted Orange
(Very frequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Very frequent)
Large Ear
(Very frequent)
Ear Moth
(Very frequent)
Small Wainscot
(Very frequent)
Dark Arches
(Very frequent)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Very frequent)
Red-line Quaker
(Very frequent)
Brick
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Black Rustic
(Very frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Very frequent)
Antler Moth
(Very frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Heath Rustic
(Very frequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Very frequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Autumnal Rustic
(Very frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
Pine Carpet
(Frequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Frequent)
Northern Spinach
(Regular)
Streak
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Barred Red
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Anomalous
(Regular)
Flounced Rustic
(Regular)
Large Wainscot
(Regular)
Bulrush Wainscot
(Regular)
Rosy Minor
(Frequent)
Sallow
(Frequent)
Northern Deep-brown Dart
(Frequent)
Common Wainscot
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
White-line Dart
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Barred Chestnut
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Neglected Rustic
(Frequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Regular)
Purple Bar
(Regular)
Manchester Treble-bar
(Regular)
Vapourer
(Regular)
Burnished Brass
(Regular)
Northern Arches
(Regular)
Sword-grass
(Regular)
Grey Chi
(Regular)
Turnip Moth
(Regular)
Ingrailed Clay
(Regular)
Dotted Clay
(Regular)
Plain Clay
(Regular)
Orange Swift
(Infrequent)
Red Carpet
(Infrequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Infrequent)
Barred Yellow
(Infrequent)
Barred Straw
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Winter Moth
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Dotted Carpet
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Infrequent)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Infrequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Rustic
(Infrequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Infrequent)
Light Arches
(Infrequent)
Confused
(Infrequent)
Centre-barred Sallow
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Purple Clay
(Infrequent)
Northern Rustic
(Infrequent)
Six-striped Rustic
(Infrequent)