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.
Map-winged Swift
(Frequent)
Silver-ground Carpet
(Frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
Purple Bar
(Frequent)
Barred Straw
(Frequent)
Small Rivulet
(Frequent)
Snout
(Frequent)
Garden Tiger
(Frequent)
Burnished Brass
(Frequent)
Silver Y
(Frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Light Arches
(Frequent)
Common Rustic
(Frequent)
Middle-barred Minor
(Frequent)
Bright-line Brown-eye
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Frequent)
Ingrailed Clay
(Frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Frequent)
True Lover's Knot
(Frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Frequent)
Six-striped Rustic
(Frequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Frequent)
Double Square-spot
(Frequent)
Ghost Moth
(Regular)
Poplar Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Small Fan-footed Wave
(Regular)
Riband Wave
(Regular)
July Belle
(Regular)
Red Carpet
(Regular)
Yellow Shell
(Regular)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Regular)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
Foxglove Pug
(Regular)
Common Pug
(Regular)
Clouded Border
(Regular)
Mottled Beauty
(Regular)
Common White Wave
(Regular)
Common Wave
(Regular)
Light Emerald
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Regular)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Regular)
Spectacle
(Regular)
Plain Golden Y
(Regular)
Gold Spot
(Regular)
Brown Rustic
(Regular)
Small Dotted Buff
(Regular)
Dusky Brocade
(Regular)
Clouded-bordered Brindle
(Regular)
Rustic Shoulder-knot
(Regular)
Marbled Minor
(Regular)
Antler Moth
(Regular)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Regular)
Lychnis
(Regular)
Purple Clay
(Regular)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Regular)
Double Dart
(Regular)
Gold Swift
(Infrequent)
Six-Spot Burnet
(Infrequent)
Common Lutestring
(Infrequent)
Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Shaded Broad-bar
(Infrequent)
Garden Carpet
(Infrequent)
Flame Carpet
(Infrequent)
July Highflyer
(Infrequent)
Northern Spinach
(Infrequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Infrequent)
Welsh Wave
(Infrequent)
Rivulet
(Infrequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Infrequent)
Green Pug
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Wormwood Pug
(Infrequent)
Latticed Heath
(Infrequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Infrequent)
Scalloped Oak
(Infrequent)
Swallow-tailed Moth
(Infrequent)
Peppered Moth
(Infrequent)
Bordered White
(Infrequent)
Barred Red
(Infrequent)
Brussels Lace
(Infrequent)
Large Emerald
(Infrequent)
Iron Prominent
(Infrequent)
Pebble Prominent
(Infrequent)
Swallow Prominent
(Infrequent)
Buff-tip
(Infrequent)
Muslin Footman
(Infrequent)
Small Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Gold Spangle
(Infrequent)
Lempke's Gold Spot
(Infrequent)
Grey Dagger
(Infrequent)
Shark
(Infrequent)
Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Broom Moth
(Infrequent)
Common Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Clay
(Infrequent)
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Heart and Dart
(Infrequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Green Arches
(Infrequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Infrequent)
Gothic
(Infrequent)
Lunar Hornet Moth
(Unusual)
Scalloped Hook-tip
(Unusual)
Peach Blossom
(Unusual)
Northern Eggar
(Unusual)
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Small Dusty Wave
(Unusual)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Grey Mountain Carpet
(Unusual)
Pine Carpet
(Unusual)
Barred Yellow
(Unusual)
Phoenix
(Unusual)
Spinach
(Unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Unusual)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Unusual)
Dingy Shell
(Unusual)
Grass Rivulet
(Unusual)
Sandy Carpet
(Unusual)
Juniper Pug
(Unusual)
Larch Pug
(Unusual)
Angle-barred Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Tawny Speckled Pug
(Unusual)
Magpie Moth
(Unusual)
Tawny-barred Angle
(Unusual)
Willow Beauty
(Unusual)
Dotted Carpet
(Unusual)
Dark Tussock
(Unusual)
Wood Tiger
(Unusual)
Common Footman
(Unusual)
Chamomile Shark
(Unusual)
Marbled Beauty
(Unusual)
Mottled Rustic
(Unusual)
Rustic
(Unusual)
Straw Underwing
(Unusual)
Rosy Rustic
(Unusual)
Confused
(Unusual)
Northern Arches
(Unusual)
Double Lobed
(Unusual)
Rosy Minor
(Unusual)
Dun-bar
(Unusual)
Cabbage Moth
(Unusual)
White Colon
(Unusual)
Archer's Dart
(Unusual)
Dotted Rustic
(Unusual)
Northern Rustic
(Unusual)
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Unusual)
Green Silver-lines
(Unusual)