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.
Yellow Horned
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Scarce Tissue
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Very frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Very frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
March Moth
(Frequent)
Dotted Border
(Regular)
Early Moth
(Frequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Frequent)
Herald
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Frequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Regular)
Dark Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Oak Nycteoline
(Regular)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Regular)
Ochreous Pug
(Infrequent)
Common Pug
(Regular)
Brown Silver-line
(Infrequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Infrequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Oak Beauty
(Regular)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Infrequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Muslin Moth
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Regular)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)