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