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.
Smoky Wainscot
(Very frequent)
Six-Spot Burnet
(Frequent)
Riband Wave
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
July Highflyer
(Frequent)
Purple Bar
(Frequent)
Barred Straw
(Frequent)
Magpie Moth
(Frequent)
Clouded Border
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Scalloped Oak
(Frequent)
Mottled Beauty
(Frequent)
Common White Wave
(Frequent)
Common Wave
(Frequent)
Light Emerald
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Frequent)
Straw Dot
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Garden Tiger
(Frequent)
Burnished Brass
(Frequent)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Gold Spot
(Frequent)
Dusky Brocade
(Frequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Frequent)
Grey Arches
(Frequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Purple Clay
(Frequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
True Lover's Knot
(Frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Frequent)
Double Square-spot
(Frequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Regular)
Transparent Burnet
(Regular)
Slender Scotch Burnet
(Regular)
Common Lutestring
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Regular)
Oblique Carpet
(Regular)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Yellow Shell
(Regular)
Northern Spinach
(Regular)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
Welsh Wave
(Regular)
Pretty Pinion
(Regular)
Grass Rivulet
(Regular)
Barred Carpet
(Regular)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Regular)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Regular)
Wormwood Pug
(Regular)
Treble-bar
(Regular)
Barred Red
(Regular)
Large Emerald
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Buff-tip
(Regular)
Buff Ermine
(Regular)
Cinnabar
(Regular)
Spectacle
(Regular)
Gold Spangle
(Regular)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Regular)
Knot Grass
(Regular)
Rustic
(Regular)
Brown Rustic
(Regular)
Small Angle Shades
(Regular)
Small Wainscot
(Regular)
Small Dotted Buff
(Regular)
Light Arches
(Regular)
Broom Moth
(Regular)
Campion
(Regular)
Heart and Dart
(Regular)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Green Arches
(Regular)
Six-striped Rustic
(Regular)
Ghost Moth
(Infrequent)
Peach Blossom
(Infrequent)
Northern Eggar
(Infrequent)
Single-dotted Wave
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wave
(Infrequent)
Red Carpet
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Carpet
(Infrequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Barred Yellow
(Infrequent)
Small Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Small Rivulet
(Infrequent)
V-Pug
(Infrequent)
Green Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Lime-speck Pug
(Infrequent)
Satyr Pug
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Infrequent)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Infrequent)
Bordered Beauty
(Infrequent)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Willow Beauty
(Infrequent)
Satin Beauty
(Infrequent)
Dotted Carpet
(Infrequent)
Scotch Annulet
(Infrequent)
Brussels Lace
(Infrequent)
Sallow Kitten
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Clouded Buff
(Infrequent)
Wood Tiger
(Infrequent)
Common Footman
(Infrequent)
Small Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Infrequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Grey Dagger
(Infrequent)
Shark
(Infrequent)
Straw Underwing
(Infrequent)
Haworth's Minor
(Infrequent)
Crescent
(Infrequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Infrequent)
Flounced Rustic
(Infrequent)
Dark Brocade
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Brocade
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
Marbled Coronet
(Infrequent)
Clay
(Infrequent)
White-line Dart
(Infrequent)
Archer's Dart
(Infrequent)
Flame
(Infrequent)
Northern Rustic
(Infrequent)
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Double Dart
(Infrequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Infrequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)
Gothic
(Infrequent)
Orange Swift
(Unusual)
Gold Swift
(Unusual)
Lunar Hornet Moth
(Unusual)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Fox Moth
(Unusual)
Bedstraw Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Birch Mocha
(Unusual)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Unusual)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
May Highflyer
(Unusual)
Chestnut-coloured Carpet
(Unusual)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Unusual)
Barred Rivulet
(Unusual)
Sandy Carpet
(Unusual)
Angle-barred Pug
(Unusual)
Thyme Pug
(Unusual)
Triple-spotted Pug
(Unusual)
Common Pug
(Unusual)
Brown Silver-line
(Unusual)
Speckled Yellow
(Unusual)
Early Thorn
(Unusual)
Bordered Grey
(Unusual)
Bordered White
(Unusual)
Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Ruby Tiger
(Unusual)
Four-dotted Footman
(Unusual)
Buff Footman
(Unusual)
Fan-foot
(Unusual)
Dark Spectacle
(Unusual)
Scarce Silver Y
(Unusual)
Silver Hook
(Unusual)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Unusual)
Coronet
(Unusual)
Mouse Moth
(Unusual)
Mottled Rustic
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Large Ear
(Unusual)
Clouded Brindle
(Unusual)
Confused
(Unusual)
Double Lobed
(Unusual)
Dun-bar
(Unusual)
Common Wainscot
(Unusual)
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
(Unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Barred Chestnut
(Unusual)
Least Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)
Green Silver-lines
(Unusual)