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)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Streamer
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Water Carpet
(Frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Frequent)
Spectacle
(Frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Frequent)
Common Quaker
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Regular)
Common Carpet
(Regular)
Shoulder Stripe
(Regular)
May Highflyer
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Sandy Carpet
(Regular)
V-Pug
(Regular)
Golden-rod Pug
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Regular)
Common White Wave
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Brown Rustic
(Regular)
Small Angle Shades
(Regular)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Regular)
Rustic Shoulder-knot
(Regular)
Chestnut
(Regular)
Lychnis
(Regular)
Heart and Dart
(Regular)
Flame Shoulder
(Regular)
Least Black Arches
(Regular)
Common Swift
(Infrequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Infrequent)
Peach Blossom
(Infrequent)
Emperor Moth
(Infrequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Dwarf Pug
(Infrequent)
Ochreous Pug
(Infrequent)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Infrequent)
Treble-bar
(Infrequent)
Lesser Treble-bar
(Infrequent)
Seraphim
(Infrequent)
Clouded Border
(Infrequent)
Common Heath
(Infrequent)
Bordered White
(Infrequent)
Common Wave
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Infrequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Infrequent)
Buff-tip
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Chamomile Shark
(Infrequent)
Early Grey
(Infrequent)
Dark Brocade
(Infrequent)
Pine Beauty
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Infrequent)
Broad-barred White
(Infrequent)
Flame
(Infrequent)
Small Square-spot
(Infrequent)
Red Chestnut
(Infrequent)
Green Silver-lines
(Infrequent)
Ghost Moth
(Unusual)
Common Lutestring
(Unusual)
Fox Moth
(Unusual)
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Mottled Grey
(Unusual)
Green Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Wormwood Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Mottled Pug
(Unusual)
Latticed Heath
(Unusual)
White-pinion Spotted
(Unusual)
Grey Scalloped Bar
(Unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Sallow Kitten
(Unusual)
Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Cinnabar
(Unusual)
Mother Shipton
(Unusual)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Unusual)
Grey Dagger
(Unusual)
Mottled Rustic
(Unusual)
Dark Arches
(Unusual)
Marbled Minor
(Unusual)
Pale Pinion
(Unusual)
Red Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Small Quaker
(Unusual)
Powdered Quaker
(Unusual)
Shears
(Unusual)
Campion
(Unusual)
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
(Unusual)
Turnip Moth
(Unusual)
Shuttle-shaped Dart
(Unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Ingrailed Clay
(Unusual)
Oak Nycteoline
(Unusual)