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.
Yellow Horned
(Unusual)
Emperor Moth
(Unusual)
Garden Carpet
(Very unusual)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Very unusual)
Flame Carpet
(Unusual)
Common Carpet
(Very unusual)
Shoulder Stripe
(Unusual)
Streamer
(Unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Very unusual)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Very unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Very unusual)
Red-Green Carpet
(Unusual)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Unusual)
Mottled Grey
(Frequent)
Water Carpet
(Regular)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
V-Pug
(Very unusual)
Brindled Pug
(Frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Very unusual)
Barred Tooth-striped
(Unusual)
Early Tooth-striped
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Early Thorn
(Regular)
March Moth
(Regular)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Very unusual)
Oak Beauty
(Regular)
Dotted Border
(Very unusual)
Ringed Carpet
(Very unusual)
Grey Birch
(Unusual)
Common Heath
(Very unusual)
Puss Moth
(Very unusual)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Unusual)
Pebble Prominent
(Very unusual)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Very unusual)
Scarce Prominent
(Unusual)
Herald
(Unusual)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Very unusual)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Chestnut
(Regular)
Pale Pinion
(Unusual)
Red Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Very unusual)
Pine Beauty
(Regular)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Very unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Very unusual)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Very unusual)