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)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Frequent)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Frequent)
Common Quaker
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Sandy Carpet
(Regular)
Common Pug
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Common Heath
(Regular)
Angle Shades
(Regular)
Glaucous Shears
(Regular)
Shears
(Regular)
Lychnis
(Regular)
Dark Sword-grass
(Regular)
Red Chestnut
(Regular)
Least Black Arches
(Regular)
Flame Carpet
(Infrequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Infrequent)
May Highflyer
(Infrequent)
Satyr Pug
(Infrequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Infrequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Infrequent)
Common White Wave
(Infrequent)
Common Wave
(Infrequent)
Puss Moth
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Spectacle
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Marbled Coronet
(Infrequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Infrequent)
Northern Eggar
(Unusual)
Common Carpet
(Unusual)
Streamer
(Unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Unusual)
Double-striped Pug
(Unusual)
Foxglove Pug
(Unusual)
Netted Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Early Thorn
(Unusual)
Iron Prominent
(Unusual)
Herald
(Unusual)
Burnished Brass
(Unusual)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Unusual)
Knot Grass
(Unusual)
Small Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Dusky Brocade
(Unusual)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Unusual)
Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Red Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Brindled Ochre
(Unusual)
Dark Brocade
(Unusual)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Unusual)
Campion
(Unusual)
Small Square-spot
(Unusual)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Unusual)