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.
Brown Silver-line
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Frequent)
Water Carpet
(Frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Peppered Moth
(Frequent)
Grey Birch
(Frequent)
Great Prominent
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Frequent)
Common Quaker
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Frequent)
Common Swift
(Regular)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Regular)
Streamer
(Regular)
May Highflyer
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Red-Green Carpet
(Regular)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Regular)
Clouded Border
(Regular)
Barred Umber
(Regular)
Scorched Wing
(Regular)
Lunar Thorn
(Regular)
Common Heath
(Regular)
Common White Wave
(Regular)
Iron Prominent
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Scarce Prominent
(Regular)
Buff-tip
(Regular)
Spectacle
(Regular)
Knot Grass
(Regular)
Brown Rustic
(Regular)
Small Angle Shades
(Regular)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Regular)
Dark Brocade
(Regular)
Powdered Quaker
(Regular)
Glaucous Shears
(Regular)
Heart and Dart
(Regular)
Red Chestnut
(Regular)
Map-winged Swift
(Infrequent)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Peach Blossom
(Infrequent)
Fox Moth
(Infrequent)
Emperor Moth
(Infrequent)
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Birch Mocha
(Infrequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Common Carpet
(Infrequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Infrequent)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Infrequent)
Purple Bar
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Welsh Wave
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
V-Pug
(Infrequent)
Oak-tree Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Dwarf Pug
(Infrequent)
Satyr Pug
(Infrequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Infrequent)
Peacock Moth
(Infrequent)
Speckled Yellow
(Infrequent)
Bordered White
(Infrequent)
Common Wave
(Infrequent)
Puss Moth
(Infrequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Infrequent)
Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Light Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Early Grey
(Infrequent)
Dusky Brocade
(Infrequent)
Rustic Shoulder-knot
(Infrequent)
Chestnut
(Infrequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Small Quaker
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
Flame
(Infrequent)
Green Silver-lines
(Infrequent)
Gold Swift
(Unusual)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Common Lutestring
(Unusual)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Riband Wave
(Unusual)
Cream Wave
(Unusual)
Red Carpet
(Unusual)
Yellow-ringed Carpet
(Unusual)
Ruddy Highflyer
(Unusual)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Unusual)
Mottled Grey
(Unusual)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Rivulet
(Unusual)
Sandy Carpet
(Unusual)
Larch Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Angle-barred Pug
(Unusual)
Ochreous Pug
(Unusual)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Unusual)
Wormwood Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Mottled Pug
(Unusual)
Broom-tip
(Unusual)
Seraphim
(Unusual)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Unusual)
Latticed Heath
(Unusual)
Purple Thorn
(Unusual)
Mottled Beauty
(Unusual)
White-pinion Spotted
(Unusual)
Grey Scalloped Bar
(Unusual)
Grass Wave
(Unusual)
Sallow Kitten
(Unusual)
Snout
(Unusual)
Beautiful Snout
(Unusual)
Clouded Buff
(Unusual)
Red-necked Footman
(Unusual)
Small Purple-barred
(Unusual)
Mother Shipton
(Unusual)
Alder Moth
(Unusual)
Coronet
(Unusual)
Mottled Rustic
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Small Clouded Brindle
(Unusual)
Middle-barred Minor
(Unusual)
Pale Pinion
(Unusual)
Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Grey Arches
(Unusual)
Beautiful Brocade
(Unusual)
Cabbage Moth
(Unusual)
Campion
(Unusual)
Broad-barred White
(Unusual)
Smoky Wainscot
(Unusual)
Turnip Moth
(Unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Purple Clay
(Unusual)
Ingrailed Clay
(Unusual)
True Lover's Knot
(Unusual)
Oak Nycteoline
(Unusual)