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.
July Highflyer
(Very frequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Very frequent)
Dark Arches
(Very frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Frequent)
Riband Wave
(Frequent)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Scalloped Oak
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Common Footman
(Frequent)
Burnished Brass
(Frequent)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Frequent)
Gold Spot
(Frequent)
Crescent
(Frequent)
Flounced Rustic
(Frequent)
Small Wainscot
(Frequent)
Sallow
(Frequent)
Dun-bar
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Frequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Frequent)
Six-striped Rustic
(Frequent)
Orange Swift
(Regular)
Chinese Character
(Regular)
Oblique Carpet
(Regular)
Purple Bar
(Regular)
Phoenix
(Regular)
Northern Spinach
(Regular)
Barred Straw
(Regular)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Rivulet
(Regular)
Small Rivulet
(Regular)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Regular)
Clouded Border
(Regular)
Canary-shouldered Thorn
(Regular)
Light Emerald
(Regular)
Barred Red
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Regular)
Straw Dot
(Regular)
Ruby Tiger
(Regular)
Buff Footman
(Regular)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Regular)
Gold Spangle
(Regular)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Regular)
Mouse Moth
(Regular)
Angle Shades
(Regular)
Double Lobed
(Regular)
Common Rustic
(Regular)
Rosy Minor
(Regular)
Centre-barred Sallow
(Regular)
Brindled Green
(Regular)
Grey Chi
(Regular)
Feathered Gothic
(Regular)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Regular)
Common Wainscot
(Regular)
Clay
(Regular)
Heart and Dart
(Regular)
Barred Chestnut
(Regular)
Ingrailed Clay
(Regular)
True Lover's Knot
(Regular)
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Double Square-spot
(Regular)
Autumnal Rustic
(Regular)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Common Lutestring
(Infrequent)
Single-dotted Wave
(Infrequent)
Red Carpet
(Infrequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
Dark Spinach
(Infrequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Blue-bordered Carpet
(Infrequent)
Barred Yellow
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Devon Carpet
(Infrequent)
Sandy Carpet
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
V-Pug
(Infrequent)
Green Pug
(Infrequent)
Juniper Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
September Thorn
(Infrequent)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Infrequent)
Willow Beauty
(Infrequent)
Mottled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Dotted Carpet
(Infrequent)
Common White Wave
(Infrequent)
Common Wave
(Infrequent)
Large Emerald
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Yellow-tail
(Infrequent)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Small Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Infrequent)
Spectacle
(Infrequent)
Dark Spectacle
(Infrequent)
Copper Underwing
(Infrequent)
Marbled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Mottled Rustic
(Infrequent)
Pale Mottled Willow
(Infrequent)
Uncertain
(Infrequent)
Rustic
(Infrequent)
Old Lady
(Infrequent)
Haworth's Minor
(Infrequent)
Frosted Orange
(Infrequent)
Large Ear
(Infrequent)
Ear Moth
(Infrequent)
Crinan Ear
(Infrequent)
Bulrush Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Small Dotted Buff
(Infrequent)
Light Arches
(Infrequent)
Cloaked Minor
(Infrequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Infrequent)
Orange Sallow
(Infrequent)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Infrequent)
Brown-spot Pinion
(Infrequent)
Suspected
(Infrequent)
Hedge Rustic
(Infrequent)
Cabbage Moth
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
Garden Dart
(Infrequent)
Shuttle-shaped Dart
(Infrequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Flame
(Infrequent)
Purple Clay
(Infrequent)
Least Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Green Arches
(Infrequent)
Neglected Rustic
(Infrequent)
Heath Rustic
(Infrequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)
Gothic
(Infrequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Unusual)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Oak Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Peach Blossom
(Unusual)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Cream Wave
(Unusual)
Vestal
(Unusual)
Pine Carpet
(Unusual)
Beech-green Carpet
(Unusual)
Welsh Wave
(Unusual)
Slender Pug
(Unusual)
Foxglove Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Wormwood Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Manchester Treble-bar
(Unusual)
Treble-bar
(Unusual)
Magpie Moth
(Unusual)
Clouded Magpie
(Unusual)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Unusual)
Latticed Heath
(Unusual)
Bordered Beauty
(Unusual)
Peppered Moth
(Unusual)
Satin Beauty
(Unusual)
Grass Emerald
(Unusual)
Common Emerald
(Unusual)
Buff-tip
(Unusual)
Buff Ermine
(Unusual)
Cinnabar
(Unusual)
Muslin Footman
(Unusual)
Four-dotted Footman
(Unusual)
Dingy Footman
(Unusual)
Anomalous
(Unusual)
Small Mottled Willow
(Unusual)
Straw Underwing
(Unusual)
Small Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Large Wainscot
(Unusual)
Dusky Brocade
(Unusual)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Unusual)
Rufous Minor
(Unusual)
Olive
(Unusual)
Dingy Shears
(Unusual)
Northern Deep-brown Dart
(Unusual)
Black Rustic
(Unusual)
Dark Brocade
(Unusual)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Unusual)
Dog's Tooth
(Unusual)
Broom Moth
(Unusual)
Southern Wainscot
(Unusual)
White-line Dart
(Unusual)
Turnip Moth
(Unusual)