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.
Silver-ground Carpet
(Very frequent)
Heart and Dart
(Very frequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Frequent)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Frequent)
Clouded Border
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Peppered Moth
(Frequent)
Mottled Beauty
(Frequent)
Light Emerald
(Frequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Frequent)
Buff Ermine
(Frequent)
Spectacle
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Brown Rustic
(Frequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Dusky Brocade
(Frequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Frequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Lychnis
(Frequent)
Flame
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Purple Clay
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Riband Wave
(Regular)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Common Carpet
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Rivulet
(Regular)
Small Rivulet
(Regular)
Common Pug
(Regular)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Common White Wave
(Regular)
Common Wave
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Buff-tip
(Regular)
Straw Dot
(Regular)
Snout
(Regular)
Cinnabar
(Regular)
Small Fan-foot
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Small Dotted Buff
(Regular)
Dark Arches
(Regular)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Regular)
Broom Moth
(Regular)
Smoky Wainscot
(Regular)
True Lover's Knot
(Regular)
Green Arches
(Regular)
Double Square-spot
(Regular)
Gold Swift
(Infrequent)
Ghost Moth
(Infrequent)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Chinese Character
(Infrequent)
Peach Blossom
(Infrequent)
Common Lutestring
(Infrequent)
Fox Moth
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wave
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Infrequent)
Purple Bar
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Water Carpet
(Infrequent)
Welsh Wave
(Infrequent)
Sandy Carpet
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Infrequent)
Wormwood Pug
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Infrequent)
Scorched Wing
(Infrequent)
Early Thorn
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
Willow Beauty
(Infrequent)
Barred Red
(Infrequent)
Clouded Buff
(Infrequent)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Muslin Footman
(Infrequent)
Red-necked Footman
(Infrequent)
Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Alder Moth
(Infrequent)
Grey Dagger
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Clouded Brindle
(Infrequent)
Grey Arches
(Infrequent)
Campion
(Infrequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Infrequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
Green Silver-lines
(Infrequent)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Single-dotted Wave
(Unusual)
July Belle
(Unusual)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Unusual)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Beautiful Carpet
(Unusual)
July Highflyer
(Unusual)
May Highflyer
(Unusual)
Phoenix
(Unusual)
Northern Spinach
(Unusual)
Barred Straw
(Unusual)
Small Yellow Wave
(Unusual)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Green Pug
(Unusual)
Golden-rod Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Valerian Pug
(Unusual)
Magpie Moth
(Unusual)
Clouded Magpie
(Unusual)
Latticed Heath
(Unusual)
Speckled Yellow
(Unusual)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Unusual)
Common Heath
(Unusual)
White-pinion Spotted
(Unusual)
Grass Emerald
(Unusual)
Large Emerald
(Unusual)
Sallow Kitten
(Unusual)
Iron Prominent
(Unusual)
Herald
(Unusual)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Unusual)
Small Purple-barred
(Unusual)
Mother Shipton
(Unusual)
Burnished Brass
(Unusual)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Unusual)
Coronet
(Unusual)
Shark
(Unusual)
Rustic Shoulder-knot
(Unusual)
Light Arches
(Unusual)
Marbled Minor
(Unusual)
Dark Brocade
(Unusual)
Clouded Drab
(Unusual)
Hebrew Character
(Unusual)
Shears
(Unusual)
Marbled Coronet
(Unusual)
Clay
(Unusual)
Turnip Moth
(Unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)