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)
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)
V-Pug
(Frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
March Moth
(Very frequent)
Rannoch Brindled Beauty
(Frequent)
Oak Beauty
(Very frequent)
Dotted Border
(Frequent)
Grey Birch
(Very frequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Very frequent)
Great Prominent
(Very frequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Pine Beauty
(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)
Least Black Arches
(Very frequent)
Oak Nycteoline
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Orange Underwing
(Frequent)
Barred Umber
(Frequent)
Common Heath
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Pale Pinion
(Frequent)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
May Highflyer
(Infrequent)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Infrequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Regular)
Ochreous Pug
(Infrequent)
Scorched Wing
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Puss Moth
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Mother Shipton
(Infrequent)
Spectacle
(Regular)
Dark Brocade
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Infrequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Infrequent)
Shuttle-shaped Dart
(Infrequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Regular)