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.
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Chestnut
(Frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Frequent)
Streamer
(Regular)
Mottled Grey
(Regular)
Water Carpet
(Regular)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
Brindled Pug
(Regular)
Early Tooth-striped
(Regular)
March Moth
(Regular)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Oak Beauty
(Regular)
Dotted Border
(Regular)
Yellow Horned
(Infrequent)
Emperor Moth
(Infrequent)
Garden Carpet
(Infrequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Flame Carpet
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Birch
(Infrequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Infrequent)
Pale Pinion
(Infrequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Pine Beauty
(Infrequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Chinese Character
(Unusual)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Common Carpet
(Unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Unusual)
V-Pug
(Unusual)
Foxglove Pug
(Unusual)
Oak-tree Pug
(Unusual)
Golden-rod Pug
(Unusual)
Common Pug
(Unusual)
Orange Underwing
(Unusual)
Brown Silver-line
(Unusual)
Lunar Thorn
(Unusual)
Ringed Carpet
(Unusual)
Common Heath
(Unusual)
Common White Wave
(Unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Pebble Prominent
(Unusual)
Scarce Prominent
(Unusual)
Ruby Tiger
(Unusual)
Mother Shipton
(Unusual)
Chamomile Shark
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Brindled Ochre
(Unusual)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Unusual)
Flame Shoulder
(Unusual)
Least Black Arches
(Unusual)