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