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.
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Frequent)
Streamer
(Frequent)
Water Carpet
(Frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Frequent)
Common Pug
(Frequent)
Broom-tip
(Frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Frequent)
Barred Umber
(Frequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Frequent)
Early Thorn
(Frequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Frequent)
Common Heath
(Frequent)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Frequent)
Common Quaker
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Frequent)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Regular)
Kentish Glory
(Regular)
Emperor Moth
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
Red-Green Carpet
(Regular)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Golden-rod Pug
(Regular)
Ochreous Pug
(Regular)
Netted Mountain Moth
(Regular)
Brindled Beauty
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Regular)
Common White Wave
(Regular)
Scarce Prominent
(Regular)
Chestnut
(Regular)
Flame Shoulder
(Regular)
Least Black Arches
(Regular)
Large Red-belted Clearwing
(Infrequent)
Pebble Hook-tip
(Infrequent)
Fox Moth
(Infrequent)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Birch Mocha
(Infrequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Infrequent)
Common Carpet
(Infrequent)
Shoulder Stripe
(Infrequent)
May Highflyer
(Infrequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Infrequent)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Infrequent)
Mottled Grey
(Infrequent)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Dwarf Pug
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Freyers/Edinburgh Pug
(Infrequent)
Satyr Pug
(Infrequent)
Clouded Border
(Infrequent)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Infrequent)
Bordered White
(Infrequent)
Common Wave
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Infrequent)
Buff-tip
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Infrequent)
Small Purple-barred
(Infrequent)
Spectacle
(Infrequent)
Silver Y
(Infrequent)
Knot Grass
(Infrequent)
Brown Rustic
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Infrequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Dark Brocade
(Infrequent)
Pine Beauty
(Infrequent)
Small Dark Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Glaucous Shears
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
Poplar Lutestring
(Unusual)
Common Lutestring
(Unusual)
Yellow Horned
(Unusual)
Northern Eggar
(Unusual)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Purple Bar
(Unusual)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Unusual)
Sandy Carpet
(Unusual)
Foxglove Pug
(Unusual)
Larch Pug
(Unusual)
Wormwood Pug
(Unusual)
Currant Pug
(Unusual)
Seraphim
(Unusual)
Orange Underwing
(Unusual)
Latticed Heath
(Unusual)
Purple Thorn
(Unusual)
Grey Scalloped Bar
(Unusual)
Grass Wave
(Unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Red-necked Footman
(Unusual)
Mother Shipton
(Unusual)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Unusual)
Grey Dagger
(Unusual)
Light Knot Grass
(Unusual)
Sweet Gale Moth
(Unusual)
Pale Pinion
(Unusual)
Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Lead-coloured Drab
(Unusual)
Broad-bordered White Underwing
(Unusual)
Beautiful Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)
Heart and Dart
(Unusual)
Green Silver-lines
(Unusual)