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.
Dark Arches
(Very frequent)
Common Rustic
(Very frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Very frequent)
Red Carpet
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
July Highflyer
(Frequent)
Northern Spinach
(Frequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Magpie Moth
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Burnished Brass
(Frequent)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Frequent)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Frequent)
Autumnal Rustic
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Regular)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Regular)
Barred Yellow
(Regular)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
Garden Tiger
(Regular)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Regular)
Gold Spot
(Regular)
Haworth's Minor
(Regular)
Flounced Rustic
(Regular)
Small Wainscot
(Regular)
Dusky Brocade
(Regular)
Light Arches
(Regular)
Rosy Minor
(Regular)
Middle-barred Minor
(Regular)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Regular)
True Lover's Knot
(Regular)
Double Dart
(Regular)
Six-striped Rustic
(Regular)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Regular)
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Infrequent)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
Common Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Infrequent)
Purple Bar
(Infrequent)
Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Small Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Manchester Treble-bar
(Infrequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Infrequent)
Barred Red
(Infrequent)
Spectacle
(Infrequent)
Pale Mottled Willow
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Crescent
(Infrequent)
Large Ear
(Infrequent)
Ear Moth
(Infrequent)
Small Dotted Buff
(Infrequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Infrequent)
Confused
(Infrequent)
Sallow
(Infrequent)
Dun-bar
(Infrequent)
Cabbage Moth
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
White-line Dart
(Infrequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Infrequent)
Purple Clay
(Infrequent)
Northern Rustic
(Infrequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Green Arches
(Infrequent)
Heath Rustic
(Infrequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Unusual)
Ghost Moth
(Unusual)
Bedstraw Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Blood-Vein
(Unusual)
Pine Carpet
(Unusual)
Barred Straw
(Unusual)
Foxglove Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Wormwood Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Treble-bar
(Unusual)
Common White Wave
(Unusual)
Common Wave
(Unusual)
Light Emerald
(Unusual)
Iron Prominent
(Unusual)
Pebble Prominent
(Unusual)
Straw Dot
(Unusual)
Vapourer
(Unusual)
Gold Spangle
(Unusual)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Unusual)
Anomalous
(Unusual)
Mouse Moth
(Unusual)
Northern Deep-brown Dart
(Unusual)
Nutmeg
(Unusual)
Archer's Dart
(Unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)
Double Square-spot
(Unusual)
Gothic
(Unusual)