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 Unusual, or for beginners 'Unusual' against them should be checked with your CMR.
December Moth
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Very unusual)
July Highflyer
(Very unusual)
Pine Carpet
(Unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Frequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Very unusual)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Unusual)
Winter Moth
(Very unusual)
November Moth
(Very frequent)
Pale November Moth
(Very frequent)
Autumnal Moth
(Frequent)
Streak
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Very unusual)
Canary-shouldered Thorn
(Unusual)
Feathered Thorn
(Very frequent)
Scarce Umber
(Very unusual)
Mottled Umber
(Regular)
Straw Dot
(Very unusual)
Snout
(Very unusual)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Gold Spot
(Very unusual)
Green-brindled Crescent
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Frosted Orange
(Regular)
Rosy Rustic
(Frequent)
Large Wainscot
(Very unusual)
Small Wainscot
(Very unusual)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Very unusual)
Sallow
(Very unusual)
Brown-spot Pinion
(Very unusual)
Red-line Quaker
(Frequent)
Brick
(Regular)
Lunar Underwing
(Regular)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Very unusual)
Blair's Shoulder-knot
(Very unusual)
Red Sword-grass
(Very unusual)
Merveille du Jour
(Unusual)
Brindled Green
(Very unusual)
Black Rustic
(Very unusual)
Feathered Ranunculus
(Very unusual)
Common Wainscot
(Very unusual)
Smoky Wainscot
(Very unusual)
White-speck
(Very unusual)
Turnip Moth
(Very unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Very unusual)
Flame
(Very unusual)
Small Square-spot
(Unusual)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very unusual)
Square-spot Rustic
(Very unusual)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Very unusual)