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)
Kentish Glory
(Very frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Very frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Very frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Ochreous Pug
(Very frequent)
Broom-tip
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Orange Underwing
(Very frequent)
Netted Mountain Moth
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
Purple Thorn
(Very frequent)
Brindled Beauty
(Very frequent)
Dotted Border
(Frequent)
Grey Birch
(Frequent)
Common Heath
(Very frequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Very frequent)
Rannoch Sprawler
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Lead-coloured Drab
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Regular)
Brown Silver-line
(Frequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Puss Moth
(Frequent)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Frequent)
Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Small Dark Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Frequent)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Scarce Tissue
(Regular)
Golden-rod Pug
(Regular)
Iron Prominent
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Ruby Tiger
(Regular)
Dark Sword-grass
(Regular)
Oak Nycteoline
(Regular)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Peacock Moth
(Infrequent)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
March Moth
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Infrequent)
Small Purple-barred
(Infrequent)
Light Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Chamomile Shark
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Infrequent)