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.
Garden 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)
March Moth
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Muslin Moth
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Very 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)
Yellow Horned
(Frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Regular)
Red-Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Dotted Border
(Regular)
Scarce Prominent
(Regular)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Regular)
Common Carpet
(Regular)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
Tissue
(Regular)
Common Pug
(Regular)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Regular)
Ruby Tiger
(Regular)
Early Grey
(Regular)
Angle Shades
(Regular)
Marbled Coronet
(Regular)
Shuttle-shaped Dart
(Regular)
Oak Nycteoline
(Regular)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Oak-tree Pug
(Infrequent)
Orange Underwing
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
Purple Thorn
(Infrequent)
Puss Moth
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Mother Shipton
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Chamomile Shark
(Infrequent)
Dark Chestnut
(Infrequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Infrequent)
Cabbage Moth
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)