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)
Map-winged Swift
(Frequent)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Frequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Clouded Border
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Peppered Moth
(Frequent)
Mottled Beauty
(Frequent)
Common White Wave
(Frequent)
Common Wave
(Frequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Frequent)
Buff-tip
(Frequent)
Four-dotted Footman
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Knot Grass
(Frequent)
Brown Rustic
(Frequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Dusky Brocade
(Frequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Frequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Broom Moth
(Frequent)
Heart and Dart
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Common Swift
(Regular)
Ghost Moth
(Regular)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Regular)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Regular)
Peach Blossom
(Regular)
Common Lutestring
(Regular)
Fox Moth
(Regular)
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Riband Wave
(Regular)
Common Carpet
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Regular)
Purple Bar
(Regular)
Water Carpet
(Regular)
Welsh Wave
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Regular)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Regular)
Peacock Moth
(Regular)
Latticed Heath
(Regular)
Barred Umber
(Regular)
Scorched Wing
(Regular)
Speckled Yellow
(Regular)
Lunar Thorn
(Regular)
Bordered White
(Regular)
Light Emerald
(Regular)
Iron Prominent
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Straw Dot
(Regular)
Snout
(Regular)
Clouded Buff
(Regular)
Spectacle
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Mottled Rustic
(Regular)
Small Dotted Buff
(Regular)
Rustic Shoulder-knot
(Regular)
Dark Arches
(Regular)
Dark Brocade
(Regular)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Regular)
Turnip Moth
(Regular)
Flame
(Regular)
Purple Clay
(Regular)
Ingrailed Clay
(Regular)
True Lover's Knot
(Regular)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Green Arches
(Regular)
Double Square-spot
(Regular)
Green Silver-lines
(Regular)
Gold Swift
(Infrequent)
Northern Eggar
(Infrequent)
Birch Mocha
(Infrequent)
Red Carpet
(Infrequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Yellow Shell
(Infrequent)
May Highflyer
(Infrequent)
Northern Spinach
(Infrequent)
Barred Straw
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Small Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Green Pug
(Infrequent)
Brindled Pug
(Infrequent)
Dwarf Pug
(Infrequent)
Angle-barred Pug
(Infrequent)
Ochreous Pug
(Infrequent)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Infrequent)
Satyr Pug
(Infrequent)
Wormwood Pug
(Infrequent)
Currant Pug
(Infrequent)
Mottled Pug
(Infrequent)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Infrequent)
Early Thorn
(Infrequent)
Willow Beauty
(Infrequent)
Common Heath
(Infrequent)
Barred Red
(Infrequent)
Grey Scalloped Bar
(Infrequent)
Grass Wave
(Infrequent)
Large Emerald
(Infrequent)
Sallow Kitten
(Infrequent)
Great Prominent
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Muslin Footman
(Infrequent)
Red-necked Footman
(Infrequent)
Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Small Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Mother Shipton
(Infrequent)
Burnished Brass
(Infrequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Grey Dagger
(Infrequent)
Light Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Coronet
(Infrequent)
Shark
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Small Clouded Brindle
(Infrequent)
Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)
Antler Moth
(Infrequent)
Grey Arches
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Brocade
(Infrequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Cabbage Moth
(Infrequent)
Campion
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Clay
(Infrequent)
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
White-barred Clearwing
(Unusual)
Large Red-belted Clearwing
(Unusual)
Single-dotted Wave
(Unusual)
Plain Wave
(Unusual)
Smoky Wave
(Unusual)
Cream Wave
(Unusual)
July Belle
(Unusual)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Unusual)
Beautiful Carpet
(Unusual)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Unusual)
Barred Yellow
(Unusual)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Unusual)
Small Yellow Wave
(Unusual)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Rivulet
(Unusual)
Pretty Pinion
(Unusual)
Grass Rivulet
(Unusual)
Sandy Carpet
(Unusual)
Double-striped Pug
(Unusual)
Bilberry Pug
(Unusual)
Cloaked Pug
(Unusual)
Larch Pug
(Unusual)
Valerian Pug
(Unusual)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Unusual)
Shaded Pug
(Unusual)
Seraphim
(Unusual)
Magpie Moth
(Unusual)
Scalloped Oak
(Unusual)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Unusual)
White-pinion Spotted
(Unusual)
Brussels Lace
(Unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Herald
(Unusual)
Beautiful Snout
(Unusual)
Dark Tussock
(Unusual)
Wood Tiger
(Unusual)
Round-winged Muslin
(Unusual)
Small Purple-barred
(Unusual)
Alder Moth
(Unusual)
Pale Mottled Willow
(Unusual)
Rustic
(Unusual)
Small Wainscot
(Unusual)
Light Arches
(Unusual)
Common Rustic
(Unusual)
Marbled Minor
(Unusual)
Tawny Marbled Minor
(Unusual)
Rufous Minor
(Unusual)
Broad-barred White
(Unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Double Dart
(Unusual)
Square-spot Rustic
(Unusual)