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.
Emperor Moth
(Very frequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Very frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(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)
March Moth
(Very frequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Frequent)
Oak Beauty
(Very frequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Very frequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Very frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Very frequent)
Chinese Character
(Regular)
Yellow Horned
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Frequent)
V-Pug
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Broom-tip
(Frequent)
Orange Underwing
(Frequent)
Speckled Yellow
(Regular)
Purple Thorn
(Regular)
Dotted Border
(Frequent)
Grey Birch
(Frequent)
Common Heath
(Frequent)
Puss Moth
(Frequent)
Great Prominent
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Frequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Regular)
Oak-tree Pug
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Chamomile Shark
(Regular)
Grey Shoulder-knot
(Regular)
Northern Eggar
(Infrequent)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Common Wave
(Infrequent)
Buff-tip
(Infrequent)
Mother Shipton
(Infrequent)
Dark Chestnut
(Infrequent)
Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Infrequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Oak Nycteoline
(Infrequent)