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.
Red Carpet
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Very frequent)
Silver Y
(Very frequent)
Angle Shades
(Very frequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Very frequent)
Small Wainscot
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Very frequent)
Confused
(Frequent)
Brick
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Very frequent)
Antler Moth
(Very frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Very frequent)
Northern Rustic
(Very frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Very frequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Autumnal Rustic
(Very frequent)
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Frequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Regular)
July Highflyer
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Herald
(Regular)
Clifden Nonpareil
(Frequent)
Mouse Moth
(Regular)
Large Wainscot
(Regular)
Pearly Underwing
(Regular)
Turnip Moth
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Juniper Pug
(Regular)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Regular)
Map-winged Swift
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Bordered Straw
(Infrequent)
Haworth's Minor
(Infrequent)
Crescent
(Infrequent)
Frosted Orange
(Infrequent)
Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Black Rustic
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Marbled Coronet
(Infrequent)
Common Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Delicate
(Infrequent)
Dotted Rustic
(Infrequent)
Heath Rustic
(Infrequent)
Six-striped Rustic
(Infrequent)