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