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)
Emperor Moth
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Very frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Very frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(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)
March Moth
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Chamomile Shark
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very 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)
Marbled Coronet
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
V-Pug
(Frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Lunar Thorn
(Regular)
Oak Beauty
(Regular)
Puss Moth
(Regular)
Scarce Prominent
(Frequent)
Cinnabar
(Frequent)
Spectacle
(Frequent)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Sword-grass
(Regular)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Regular)
Lychnis
(Regular)
Shuttle-shaped Dart
(Frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
Seraphim
(Regular)
Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Regular)
Dotted Border
(Regular)
Common Heath
(Regular)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Ruby Tiger
(Regular)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Regular)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Regular)
Oak Nycteoline
(Regular)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Infrequent)
Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Mottled Pug
(Infrequent)
Orange Underwing
(Infrequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Lead-coloured Drab
(Infrequent)
Cabbage Moth
(Infrequent)
Campion
(Infrequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)