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)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Water Carpet
(Frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Common Heath
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Frequent)
Common Quaker
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Streamer
(Regular)
May Highflyer
(Regular)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Regular)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
Brindled Pug
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Lunar Thorn
(Regular)
Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Herald
(Regular)
Knot Grass
(Regular)
Brown Rustic
(Regular)
Red Sword-grass
(Regular)
Dark Brocade
(Regular)
Pine Beauty
(Regular)
Glaucous Shears
(Regular)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Peach Blossom
(Infrequent)
Fox Moth
(Infrequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Birch Mocha
(Infrequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Infrequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Infrequent)
Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Infrequent)
Mottled Grey
(Infrequent)
Sandy Carpet
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Dwarf Pug
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Ochreous Pug
(Infrequent)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Infrequent)
Satyr Pug
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Seraphim
(Infrequent)
Clouded Border
(Infrequent)
Peacock Moth
(Infrequent)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Infrequent)
Purple Thorn
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Grey Birch
(Infrequent)
Bordered White
(Infrequent)
Common White Wave
(Infrequent)
Common Wave
(Infrequent)
Grey Scalloped Bar
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Infrequent)
Spectacle
(Infrequent)
Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Light Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Chestnut
(Infrequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Unusual)
Northern Eggar
(Unusual)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Cream Wave
(Unusual)
Common Carpet
(Unusual)
Purple Bar
(Unusual)
Welsh Wave
(Unusual)
Juniper Pug
(Unusual)
Larch Pug
(Unusual)
Wormwood Pug
(Unusual)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Unusual)
Barred Umber
(Unusual)
Dotted Border
(Unusual)
Barred Red
(Unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Sallow Kitten
(Unusual)
Iron Prominent
(Unusual)
Buff-tip
(Unusual)
Ruby Tiger
(Unusual)
Mother Shipton
(Unusual)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Unusual)
Poplar Grey
(Unusual)
Early Grey
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Unusual)
Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Beautiful Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)
Broom Moth
(Unusual)
Lychnis
(Unusual)
True Lover's Knot
(Unusual)
Green Silver-lines
(Unusual)