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)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
March Moth
(Very frequent)
Brindled Beauty
(Very frequent)
Rannoch Brindled Beauty
(Very frequent)
Oak Beauty
(Frequent)
Dotted Border
(Very frequent)
Rannoch Sprawler
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(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)
Emperor Moth
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Streamer
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
Common Pug
(Regular)
Mottled Pug
(Regular)
Orange Underwing
(Frequent)
Ringed Carpet
(Frequent)
Puss Moth
(Regular)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Scarce Prominent
(Frequent)
Herald
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Frequent)
Sword-grass
(Regular)
Brindled Ochre
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Frequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Regular)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Regular)
Lead-coloured Drab
(Regular)
Small Dark Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Northern Eggar
(Infrequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Wormwood Pug
(Infrequent)
Peacock Moth
(Infrequent)
Netted Mountain Moth
(Infrequent)
Feathered Thorn
(Infrequent)
Grey Birch
(Infrequent)
Common Heath
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Cinnabar
(Infrequent)
Light Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
Oak Nycteoline
(Infrequent)