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.
Riband Wave
(Very frequent)
Northern Spinach
(Very frequent)
Mottled Beauty
(Very frequent)
Common White Wave
(Very frequent)
Light Emerald
(Very frequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Very frequent)
True Lover's Knot
(Very frequent)
Common Lutestring
(Frequent)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
July Highflyer
(Frequent)
Purple Bar
(Frequent)
Barred Straw
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Welsh Wave
(Frequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Rivulet
(Frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Frequent)
Clouded Border
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Scalloped Oak
(Frequent)
Satin Beauty
(Frequent)
Dotted Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Wave
(Frequent)
Large Emerald
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Frequent)
Straw Dot
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Small Fan-foot
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Brown Rustic
(Frequent)
Small Dotted Buff
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Frequent)
Grey Arches
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Purple Clay
(Frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Green Arches
(Frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Frequent)
Double Square-spot
(Frequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Regular)
Gold Swift
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
V-Pug
(Regular)
Bilberry Pug
(Regular)
Lead-coloured Pug
(Regular)
Wormwood Pug
(Regular)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Regular)
Lilac Beauty
(Regular)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Regular)
Barred Red
(Regular)
Buff-tip
(Regular)
Pinion-streaked Snout
(Regular)
Burnished Brass
(Regular)
Gold Spangle
(Regular)
Gold Spot
(Regular)
Small Angle Shades
(Regular)
Small Wainscot
(Regular)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Regular)
Rufous Minor
(Regular)
Middle-barred Minor
(Regular)
Dun-bar
(Regular)
Heart and Dart
(Regular)
Flame
(Regular)
Small Square-spot
(Regular)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Six-striped Rustic
(Regular)
Orange Swift
(Infrequent)
Ghost Moth
(Infrequent)
Six-Spot Burnet
(Infrequent)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Peach Blossom
(Infrequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wave
(Infrequent)
Cream Wave
(Infrequent)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Infrequent)
Red Carpet
(Infrequent)
Garden Carpet
(Infrequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Barred Yellow
(Infrequent)
Small Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Scallop Shell
(Infrequent)
Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Green Pug
(Infrequent)
Slender Pug
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Juniper Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Larch Pug
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Infrequent)
V-Moth
(Infrequent)
Latticed Heath
(Infrequent)
Early Thorn
(Infrequent)
Willow Beauty
(Infrequent)
Little Emerald
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Muslin Footman
(Infrequent)
Four-dotted Footman
(Infrequent)
Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Spectacle
(Infrequent)
Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Marbled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Mottled Rustic
(Infrequent)
Rustic
(Infrequent)
Dusky Brocade
(Infrequent)
Light Arches
(Infrequent)
Double Lobed
(Infrequent)
Tawny Marbled Minor
(Infrequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
Common Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Clay
(Infrequent)
Barred Chestnut
(Infrequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Double Dart
(Infrequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)
Gothic
(Infrequent)
Northern Eggar
(Unusual)
Small Dusty Wave
(Unusual)
Single-dotted Wave
(Unusual)
July Belle
(Unusual)
Oblique Carpet
(Unusual)
Dark Spinach
(Unusual)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Unusual)
May Highflyer
(Unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Unusual)
Blue-bordered Carpet
(Unusual)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Unusual)
Phoenix
(Unusual)
Spinach
(Unusual)
Beech-green Carpet
(Unusual)
Small Yellow Wave
(Unusual)
Pretty Pinion
(Unusual)
Grass Rivulet
(Unusual)
Sandy Carpet
(Unusual)
Lime-speck Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Common Pug
(Unusual)
Bordered Pug
(Unusual)
Shaded Pug
(Unusual)
Manchester Treble-bar
(Unusual)
Treble-bar
(Unusual)
Magpie Moth
(Unusual)
Bordered Beauty
(Unusual)
Canary-shouldered Thorn
(Unusual)
September Thorn
(Unusual)
Common Heath
(Unusual)
Bordered White
(Unusual)
Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Clouded Buff
(Unusual)
Ruby Tiger
(Unusual)
Red-necked Footman
(Unusual)
Buff Footman
(Unusual)
Scarce Silver Y
(Unusual)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Unusual)
Grey Dagger
(Unusual)
Coronet
(Unusual)
Old Lady
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Haworth's Minor
(Unusual)
Crescent
(Unusual)
Rosy Rustic
(Unusual)
Large Ear
(Unusual)
Common Rustic
(Unusual)
Cloaked Minor
(Unusual)
Suspected
(Unusual)
Dingy Shears
(Unusual)
Dark Brocade
(Unusual)
Cabbage Moth
(Unusual)
Campion
(Unusual)
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
(Unusual)
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)
Square-spot Rustic
(Unusual)