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 Unusual, or for beginners 'Unusual' against them should be checked with your CMR.
97 - West Inverness-shire
Yellow Horned
(Regular)
Fox Moth
(Very unusual)
Emperor Moth
(Frequent)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Very unusual)
Garden Carpet
(Very unusual)
Flame Carpet
(Very unusual)
Common Carpet
(Very unusual)
Streamer
(Unusual)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Very unusual)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very unusual)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Very unusual)
Mottled Grey
(Frequent)
Water Carpet
(Regular)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Very unusual)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Very unusual)
Brindled Pug
(Frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Very unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Very unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Very unusual)
Barred Tooth-striped
(Very unusual)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Orange Underwing
(Very unusual)
Clouded Border
(Very unusual)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Very unusual)
Speckled Yellow
(Very unusual)
Early Thorn
(Regular)
March Moth
(Very unusual)
Brindled Beauty
(Frequent)
Oak Beauty
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Very unusual)
Dotted Border
(Very unusual)
Ringed Carpet
(Unusual)
Grey Birch
(Unusual)
Common Heath
(Very unusual)
Black Mountain Moth
(Very unusual)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Very unusual)
Pebble Prominent
(Very unusual)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Very unusual)
Scarce Prominent
(Unusual)
Herald
(Unusual)
Ruby Tiger
(Very unusual)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Unusual)
Light Knot Grass
(Very unusual)
Knot Grass
(Very unusual)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Chestnut
(Frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Very unusual)
Pine Beauty
(Very unusual)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Very unusual)
Glaucous Shears
(Very unusual)
Shears
(Very unusual)
Red Chestnut
(Frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Very unusual)
Oak Nycteoline
(Very unusual)