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