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)
Brindled Pug
(Frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Frequent)
Brindled Beauty
(Frequent)
Early Grey
(Frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Frequent)
Common Quaker
(Frequent)
Small Quaker
(Frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Frequent)
Yellow Horned
(Regular)
Emperor Moth
(Regular)
Mottled Grey
(Regular)
Water Carpet
(Regular)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
Brown Silver-line
(Regular)
Oak Beauty
(Regular)
Chestnut
(Regular)
Red Sword-grass
(Regular)
Garden Carpet
(Infrequent)
Flame Carpet
(Infrequent)
Streamer
(Infrequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Infrequent)
Orange Underwing
(Infrequent)
Early Thorn
(Infrequent)
Rannoch Brindled Beauty
(Infrequent)
Dotted Border
(Infrequent)
Ringed Carpet
(Infrequent)
Grey Birch
(Infrequent)
Common Heath
(Infrequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Infrequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Infrequent)
Herald
(Infrequent)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Infrequent)
Least Black Arches
(Infrequent)
Fox Moth
(Unusual)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Unusual)
Common Carpet
(Unusual)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Unusual)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Unusual)
Foxglove Pug
(Unusual)
Golden-rod Pug
(Unusual)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Unusual)
Satyr Pug
(Unusual)
Barred Tooth-striped
(Unusual)
Clouded Border
(Unusual)
Brimstone Moth
(Unusual)
Speckled Yellow
(Unusual)
March Moth
(Unusual)
Peppered Moth
(Unusual)
Black Mountain Moth
(Unusual)
Puss Moth
(Unusual)
Pebble Prominent
(Unusual)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Unusual)
Ruby Tiger
(Unusual)
Light Knot Grass
(Unusual)
Knot Grass
(Unusual)
Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Brindled Ochre
(Unusual)
Pine Beauty
(Unusual)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Unusual)
Glaucous Shears
(Unusual)
Shears
(Unusual)
Oak Nycteoline
(Unusual)