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