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
(Frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
March Moth
(Very frequent)
Dotted Border
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Frequent)
Yellow Horned
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Frequent)
Oak Beauty
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Herald
(Frequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Regular)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Regular)
Pale Pinion
(Frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Frequent)
Chinese Character
(Infrequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
V-Pug
(Infrequent)
Dwarf Pug
(Regular)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Regular)
Orange Underwing
(Infrequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Common Heath
(Infrequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Regular)
Chamomile Shark
(Infrequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Infrequent)
Small Square-spot
(Regular)
Oak Nycteoline
(Infrequent)