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)
Early Tooth-striped
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Chestnut
(Frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Regular)
Shoulder Stripe
(Regular)
Streamer
(Regular)
Mottled Grey
(Regular)
Water Carpet
(Regular)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
Brindled Pug
(Regular)
March Moth
(Regular)
Pale Pinion
(Regular)
Yellow Horned
(Infrequent)
Garden Carpet
(Infrequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Flame Carpet
(Infrequent)
Orange Underwing
(Infrequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Infrequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Oak Beauty
(Infrequent)
Dotted Border
(Infrequent)
Grey Birch
(Infrequent)
Common Heath
(Infrequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Great Prominent
(Infrequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Infrequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Pine Beauty
(Infrequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Chinese Character
(Unusual)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Common Carpet
(Unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Unusual)
Red-Green Carpet
(Unusual)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Unusual)
V-Pug
(Unusual)
Oak-tree Pug
(Unusual)
Common Pug
(Unusual)
Broom-tip
(Unusual)
Speckled Yellow
(Unusual)
Purple Thorn
(Unusual)
Ringed Carpet
(Unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Ruby Tiger
(Unusual)
Silver Y
(Unusual)
Chamomile Shark
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Grey Shoulder-knot
(Unusual)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Unusual)