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)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Very frequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Very frequent)
Small Wainscot
(Very frequent)
Pine Carpet
(Frequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Streak
(Frequent)
Canary-shouldered Thorn
(Frequent)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Green-brindled Crescent
(Frequent)
Frosted Orange
(Frequent)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Frequent)
Sallow
(Frequent)
Brown-spot Pinion
(Frequent)
Chestnut
(Frequent)
Merveille du Jour
(Frequent)
Black Rustic
(Frequent)
Barred Chestnut
(Frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Frequent)
Autumnal Rustic
(Frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Regular)
Northern Spinach
(Regular)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Regular)
November Moth
(Regular)
Autumnal Moth
(Regular)
Juniper Pug
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
Mouse Moth
(Regular)
Angle Shades
(Regular)
Large Ear
(Regular)
Ear Moth
(Regular)
Crinan Ear
(Regular)
Dark Arches
(Regular)
Flounced Chestnut
(Regular)
Red-line Quaker
(Regular)
Brick
(Regular)
Lunar Underwing
(Regular)
Dun-bar
(Regular)
Brindled Green
(Regular)
Brindled Ochre
(Regular)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Regular)
Plain Clay
(Regular)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Infrequent)
Riband Wave
(Infrequent)
Flame Carpet
(Infrequent)
Common Carpet
(Infrequent)
Beech-green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Pale November Moth
(Infrequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Dotted Carpet
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Snout
(Infrequent)
Vapourer
(Infrequent)
Flounced Rustic
(Infrequent)
Bulrush Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Common Rustic
(Infrequent)
Orange Sallow
(Infrequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Angle-striped Sallow
(Infrequent)
Centre-barred Sallow
(Infrequent)
Grey Chi
(Infrequent)
Antler Moth
(Infrequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Infrequent)
Small Square-spot
(Infrequent)
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Dotted Clay
(Infrequent)
Neglected Rustic
(Infrequent)
Heath Rustic
(Infrequent)
Cousin German
(Infrequent)
December Moth
(Unusual)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Unusual)
Red Carpet
(Unusual)
Yellow Shell
(Unusual)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Unusual)
Blue-bordered Carpet
(Unusual)
Barred Yellow
(Unusual)
Broken-barred Carpet
(Unusual)
Purple Bar
(Unusual)
Phoenix
(Unusual)
Barred Straw
(Unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Unusual)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Slender-striped Rufous
(Unusual)
Double-striped Pug
(Unusual)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Unusual)
Bordered Beauty
(Unusual)
Scalloped Oak
(Unusual)
Mottled Umber
(Unusual)
Willow Beauty
(Unusual)
Satin Beauty
(Unusual)
Light Emerald
(Unusual)
Barred Red
(Unusual)
Iron Prominent
(Unusual)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Unusual)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Unusual)
Scarce Silver Y
(Unusual)
Knot Grass
(Unusual)
Anomalous
(Unusual)
Pale Mottled Willow
(Unusual)
Haworth's Minor
(Unusual)
Large Wainscot
(Unusual)
Small Dotted Buff
(Unusual)
Rosy Minor
(Unusual)
Pale Pinion
(Unusual)
Golden-rod Brindle
(Unusual)
Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Suspected
(Unusual)
Northern Deep-brown Dart
(Unusual)
Hedge Rustic
(Unusual)
White-line Dart
(Unusual)
Garden Dart
(Unusual)
Flame Shoulder
(Unusual)
Purple Clay
(Unusual)
Ingrailed Clay
(Unusual)
Six-striped Rustic
(Unusual)