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.
Silver-ground Carpet
(Very frequent)
Heart and Dart
(Very frequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Frequent)
Ghost Moth
(Frequent)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Frequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Clouded Border
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Peppered Moth
(Frequent)
Light Emerald
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Spectacle
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Brown Rustic
(Frequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Dusky Brocade
(Frequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Frequent)
Rustic Shoulder-knot
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Flame
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Purple Clay
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Double Square-spot
(Frequent)
Peach Blossom
(Regular)
Riband Wave
(Regular)
Oblique Carpet
(Regular)
Common Carpet
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Regular)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Regular)
Latticed Heath
(Regular)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Willow Beauty
(Regular)
Mottled Beauty
(Regular)
Common Heath
(Regular)
Common White Wave
(Regular)
Common Wave
(Regular)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Regular)
Buff-tip
(Regular)
Straw Dot
(Regular)
Fan-foot
(Regular)
Small Fan-foot
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Small Clouded Brindle
(Regular)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Regular)
Lychnis
(Regular)
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
(Regular)
Common Swift
(Infrequent)
Gold Swift
(Infrequent)
Common Lutestring
(Infrequent)
Red Carpet
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Barred Yellow
(Infrequent)
Purple Bar
(Infrequent)
Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Water Carpet
(Infrequent)
Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Small Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Sandy Carpet
(Infrequent)
Green Pug
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Mottled Pug
(Infrequent)
Seraphim
(Infrequent)
Scorched Wing
(Infrequent)
Early Thorn
(Infrequent)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Infrequent)
Sallow Kitten
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Wood Tiger
(Infrequent)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Red-necked Footman
(Infrequent)
Burnished Brass
(Infrequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Grey Dagger
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Marbled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Mottled Rustic
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Small Dotted Buff
(Infrequent)
Tawny Marbled Minor
(Infrequent)
Dark Brocade
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Cabbage Moth
(Infrequent)
Campion
(Infrequent)
Broad-barred White
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Turnip Moth
(Infrequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Infrequent)
True Lover's Knot
(Infrequent)
Green Arches
(Infrequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
Green Silver-lines
(Infrequent)
Orange Swift
(Unusual)
Six-Spot Burnet
(Unusual)
Northern Eggar
(Unusual)
Fox Moth
(Unusual)
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Unusual)
July Belle
(Unusual)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Beautiful Carpet
(Unusual)
July Highflyer
(Unusual)
May Highflyer
(Unusual)
Pine Carpet
(Unusual)
Northern Spinach
(Unusual)
Barred Straw
(Unusual)
Red-Green Carpet
(Unusual)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Unusual)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Scallop Shell
(Unusual)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
V-Pug
(Unusual)
Slender Pug
(Unusual)
Brindled Pug
(Unusual)
Golden-rod Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Lime-speck Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Wormwood Pug
(Unusual)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Unusual)
Speckled Yellow
(Unusual)
Bordered White
(Unusual)
White-pinion Spotted
(Unusual)
Barred Red
(Unusual)
Large Emerald
(Unusual)
Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Buff Ermine
(Unusual)
Cinnabar
(Unusual)
Muslin Footman
(Unusual)
Mother Shipton
(Unusual)
Dark Spectacle
(Unusual)
Gold Spangle
(Unusual)
Gold Spot
(Unusual)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Unusual)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Unusual)
Alder Moth
(Unusual)
Uncertain
(Unusual)
Rustic
(Unusual)
Small Wainscot
(Unusual)
Double Lobed
(Unusual)
Common Rustic
(Unusual)
Marbled Minor
(Unusual)
Rufous Minor
(Unusual)
Red Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Hebrew Character
(Unusual)
Antler Moth
(Unusual)
Shears
(Unusual)
Common Wainscot
(Unusual)
Clay
(Unusual)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)
Double Dart
(Unusual)
Dotted Clay
(Unusual)
Square-spot Rustic
(Unusual)