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