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.
Map-winged Swift
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
Purple Bar
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Magpie Moth
(Frequent)
Mottled Beauty
(Frequent)
Common White Wave
(Frequent)
Light Emerald
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Garden Tiger
(Frequent)
Burnished Brass
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Gold Spangle
(Frequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Purple Clay
(Frequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
True Lover's Knot
(Frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Double Dart
(Frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Frequent)
Double Square-spot
(Frequent)
Common Lutestring
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Regular)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
July Highflyer
(Regular)
Northern Spinach
(Regular)
Barred Straw
(Regular)
Welsh Wave
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Regular)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Scalloped Oak
(Regular)
Common Wave
(Regular)
Barred Red
(Regular)
Scotch Annulet
(Regular)
Iron Prominent
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Straw Dot
(Regular)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Regular)
Spectacle
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Gold Spot
(Regular)
Brown Rustic
(Regular)
Small Angle Shades
(Regular)
Small Dotted Buff
(Regular)
Dusky Brocade
(Regular)
Light Arches
(Regular)
Grey Arches
(Regular)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Regular)
Broom Moth
(Regular)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Square-spot Rustic
(Regular)
Six-striped Rustic
(Regular)
Ghost Moth
(Infrequent)
Six-Spot Burnet
(Infrequent)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Riband Wave
(Infrequent)
Plain Wave
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wave
(Infrequent)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Infrequent)
Red Carpet
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
Chestnut-coloured Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Barred Yellow
(Infrequent)
Small Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Beech-green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Small Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Pretty Pinion
(Infrequent)
Grass Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Wormwood Pug
(Infrequent)
Common Pug
(Infrequent)
Treble-bar
(Infrequent)
Clouded Border
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Dotted Carpet
(Infrequent)
Bordered White
(Infrequent)
Large Emerald
(Infrequent)
Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Buff-tip
(Infrequent)
Buff Ermine
(Infrequent)
Scarce Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Infrequent)
Dark Brocade
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Campion
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
Common Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Archer's Dart
(Infrequent)
Green Arches
(Infrequent)
Orange Swift
(Unusual)
Gold Swift
(Unusual)
Poplar Lutestring
(Unusual)
Pale Eggar
(Unusual)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Cream Wave
(Unusual)
Birch Mocha
(Unusual)
Oblique Carpet
(Unusual)
Beautiful Carpet
(Unusual)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Unusual)
Pine Carpet
(Unusual)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Unusual)
Sandy Carpet
(Unusual)
Green Pug
(Unusual)
Juniper Pug
(Unusual)
Golden-rod Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Unusual)
Peacock Moth
(Unusual)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Unusual)
Bordered Beauty
(Unusual)
Willow Beauty
(Unusual)
Common Heath
(Unusual)
Grey Scalloped Bar
(Unusual)
Wood Tiger
(Unusual)
Plain Golden Y
(Unusual)
Grey Dagger
(Unusual)
Coronet
(Unusual)
Shark
(Unusual)
Anomalous
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Haworth's Minor
(Unusual)
Crescent
(Unusual)
Small Wainscot
(Unusual)
Common Rustic
(Unusual)
Rosy Minor
(Unusual)
Clay
(Unusual)
White-line Dart
(Unusual)
Barred Chestnut
(Unusual)
Northern Rustic
(Unusual)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Unusual)
Gothic
(Unusual)