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)
Red Carpet
(Frequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Frequent)
July Highflyer
(Frequent)
Purple Bar
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Pretty Pinion
(Frequent)
Lime-speck Pug
(Frequent)
Wormwood Pug
(Frequent)
Magpie Moth
(Frequent)
Mottled Beauty
(Frequent)
Straw Dot
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Garden Tiger
(Frequent)
Spectacle
(Frequent)
Burnished Brass
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Gold Spot
(Frequent)
Dusky Brocade
(Frequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Light Arches
(Frequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Frequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Frequent)
Campion
(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)
Dotted Clay
(Frequent)
Six-striped Rustic
(Frequent)
Ghost Moth
(Regular)
Six-Spot Burnet
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Oblique Carpet
(Regular)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Flame Carpet
(Regular)
Yellow Shell
(Regular)
Common Carpet
(Regular)
Northern Spinach
(Regular)
Small Rivulet
(Regular)
Grass Rivulet
(Regular)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Light Emerald
(Regular)
Scotch Annulet
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Buff Ermine
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Scarce Silver Y
(Regular)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Regular)
Rustic
(Regular)
Small Wainscot
(Regular)
White-line Dart
(Regular)
Archer's Dart
(Regular)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Northern Eggar
(Infrequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Infrequent)
Riband Wave
(Infrequent)
Garden Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Infrequent)
Chestnut-coloured Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Barred Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Treble-bar
(Infrequent)
Common White Wave
(Infrequent)
Barred Red
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Infrequent)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Shark
(Infrequent)
Mottled Rustic
(Infrequent)
Haworth's Minor
(Infrequent)
Crescent
(Infrequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Infrequent)
Flounced Rustic
(Infrequent)
Double Lobed
(Infrequent)
Common Rustic
(Infrequent)
Dark Brocade
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Heart and Dart
(Infrequent)
Northern Rustic
(Infrequent)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Double Dart
(Infrequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Infrequent)
Double Square-spot
(Infrequent)
Poplar Lutestring
(Unusual)
Fox Moth
(Unusual)
Dark Spinach
(Unusual)
Barred Straw
(Unusual)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Scallop Shell
(Unusual)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Double-striped Pug
(Unusual)
Thyme Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Common Pug
(Unusual)
Brown Silver-line
(Unusual)
Bordered Grey
(Unusual)
Common Wave
(Unusual)
Grey Scalloped Bar
(Unusual)
Iron Prominent
(Unusual)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Buff-tip
(Unusual)
Wood Tiger
(Unusual)
Cinnabar
(Unusual)
Common Footman
(Unusual)
Gold Spangle
(Unusual)
Uncertain
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Small Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Large Ear
(Unusual)
Small Dotted Buff
(Unusual)
Lychnis
(Unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Dotted Rustic
(Unusual)
Gothic
(Unusual)