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.
July Highflyer
(Very frequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Very frequent)
Antler Moth
(Very frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Very frequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Very frequent)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Frequent)
Riband Wave
(Frequent)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
Purple Bar
(Frequent)
Northern Spinach
(Frequent)
Barred Straw
(Frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
Juniper Pug
(Frequent)
Scalloped Oak
(Frequent)
Dotted Carpet
(Frequent)
Barred Red
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Common Rustic
(Frequent)
Dun-bar
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
Barred Chestnut
(Frequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Six-striped Rustic
(Frequent)
Autumnal Rustic
(Frequent)
Plain Clay
(Frequent)
Red Carpet
(Regular)
Yellow Shell
(Regular)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Regular)
Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Barred Yellow
(Regular)
Beech-green Carpet
(Regular)
Welsh Wave
(Regular)
Small Rivulet
(Regular)
Wormwood Pug
(Regular)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Satin Beauty
(Regular)
Mottled Beauty
(Regular)
Light Emerald
(Regular)
Large Emerald
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Burnished Brass
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Regular)
Gold Spangle
(Regular)
Anomalous
(Regular)
Large Ear
(Regular)
Ear Moth
(Regular)
Flounced Rustic
(Regular)
Small Wainscot
(Regular)
Small Dotted Buff
(Regular)
Rosy Minor
(Regular)
Middle-barred Minor
(Regular)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Regular)
Sallow
(Regular)
Brown-spot Pinion
(Regular)
Black Rustic
(Regular)
White-line Dart
(Regular)
Purple Clay
(Regular)
True Lover's Knot
(Regular)
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Green Arches
(Regular)
Double Square-spot
(Regular)
Cousin German
(Regular)
Common Lutestring
(Infrequent)
Plain Wave
(Infrequent)
July Belle
(Infrequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Infrequent)
Chestnut-coloured Carpet
(Infrequent)
Blue-bordered Carpet
(Infrequent)
Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Small Phoenix
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Slender Pug
(Infrequent)
Foxglove Pug
(Infrequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Infrequent)
Clouded Border
(Infrequent)
Canary-shouldered Thorn
(Infrequent)
Willow Beauty
(Infrequent)
Common White Wave
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Infrequent)
Straw Dot
(Infrequent)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Plain Golden Y
(Infrequent)
Scarce Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Mouse Moth
(Infrequent)
Marbled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Rustic
(Infrequent)
Haworth's Minor
(Infrequent)
Frosted Orange
(Infrequent)
Crinan Ear
(Infrequent)
Light Arches
(Infrequent)
Double Lobed
(Infrequent)
Angle-striped Sallow
(Infrequent)
Centre-barred Sallow
(Infrequent)
Suspected
(Infrequent)
Brindled Green
(Infrequent)
Grey Chi
(Infrequent)
Northern Deep-brown Dart
(Infrequent)
Hedge Rustic
(Infrequent)
Common Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Clay
(Infrequent)
Garden Dart
(Infrequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Infrequent)
Double Dart
(Infrequent)
Neglected Rustic
(Infrequent)
Heath Rustic
(Infrequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Infrequent)
Six-Spot Burnet
(Unusual)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Pale Eggar
(Unusual)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Small Dusty Wave
(Unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Unusual)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Unusual)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Unusual)
Rivulet
(Unusual)
Green Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Common Pug
(Unusual)
Manchester Treble-bar
(Unusual)
Treble-bar
(Unusual)
Latticed Heath
(Unusual)
Bordered Beauty
(Unusual)
Dark Bordered Beauty
(Unusual)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Unusual)
Common Wave
(Unusual)
Scotch Annulet
(Unusual)
Pebble Prominent
(Unusual)
Herald
(Unusual)
Buff Footman
(Unusual)
Common Footman
(Unusual)
Fan-foot
(Unusual)
Small Fan-foot
(Unusual)
Spectacle
(Unusual)
Grey Dagger
(Unusual)
Pale Mottled Willow
(Unusual)
Old Lady
(Unusual)
Angle Shades
(Unusual)
Bulrush Wainscot
(Unusual)
Dusky Brocade
(Unusual)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Unusual)
Northern Arches
(Unusual)
Marbled Minor
(Unusual)
Tawny Marbled Minor
(Unusual)
Orange Sallow
(Unusual)
Flounced Chestnut
(Unusual)
Golden-rod Brindle
(Unusual)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Unusual)
Coast Dart
(Unusual)
Archer's Dart
(Unusual)
Dotted Rustic
(Unusual)
Gothic
(Unusual)