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)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(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)
Red-Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Lunar Thorn
(Regular)
March Moth
(Frequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Scarce Prominent
(Regular)
Muslin Moth
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Chamomile Shark
(Regular)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Regular)
Flame Carpet
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Scarce Tissue
(Regular)
Golden-rod Pug
(Regular)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Puss Moth
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Dark Chestnut
(Regular)
Shuttle-shaped Dart
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Tissue
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Common Pug
(Infrequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Infrequent)
Cabbage Moth
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
Oak Nycteoline
(Infrequent)