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.
Pale Eggar
(Very frequent)
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Very frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Very frequent)
July Highflyer
(Very frequent)
Spruce Carpet
(Very frequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Very frequent)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Very frequent)
Canary-shouldered Thorn
(Very frequent)
Silver Y
(Very frequent)
Green-brindled Crescent
(Very frequent)
Angle Shades
(Very frequent)
Crescent
(Very frequent)
Frosted Orange
(Very frequent)
Rosy Rustic
(Very frequent)
Large Ear
(Very frequent)
Small Wainscot
(Very frequent)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Very frequent)
Sallow
(Very frequent)
Flounced Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Red-line Quaker
(Very frequent)
Lunar Underwing
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Black Rustic
(Very frequent)
Small Square-spot
(Very frequent)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Square-spot Rustic
(Very frequent)
Autumnal Rustic
(Very frequent)
Common Carpet
(Frequent)
Small Phoenix
(Regular)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Regular)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Regular)
November Moth
(Frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Regular)
Juniper Pug
(Frequent)
Clouded Border
(Regular)
Bordered Beauty
(Frequent)
Feathered Thorn
(Regular)
Dotted Carpet
(Regular)
Iron Prominent
(Frequent)
Herald
(Regular)
Straw Dot
(Regular)
Mouse Moth
(Regular)
Haworth's Minor
(Frequent)
Ear Moth
(Frequent)
Crinan Ear
(Frequent)
Flounced Rustic
(Regular)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Merveille du Jour
(Frequent)
Brindled Green
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Frequent)
Smoky Wainscot
(Frequent)
Barred Chestnut
(Frequent)
Neglected Rustic
(Frequent)
Heath Rustic
(Frequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Frequent)
Map-winged Swift
(Infrequent)
Riband Wave
(Infrequent)
Vestal
(Infrequent)
Garden Carpet
(Infrequent)
Chestnut-coloured Carpet
(Infrequent)
Purple Bar
(Infrequent)
Northern Spinach
(Regular)
Pale November Moth
(Regular)
Autumnal Moth
(Infrequent)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Rivulet
(Regular)
Currant Pug
(Regular)
Brimstone Moth
(Regular)
August Thorn
(Regular)
Barred Red
(Infrequent)
Coxcomb Prominent
(Regular)
Vapourer
(Regular)
Garden Tiger
(Infrequent)
Small Fan-foot
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Regular)
Knot Grass
(Regular)
Anomalous
(Regular)
Small Angle Shades
(Infrequent)
Large Wainscot
(Regular)
Bulrush Wainscot
(Infrequent)
Common Rustic
(Regular)
Pale Pinion
(Infrequent)
Centre-barred Sallow
(Infrequent)
Grey Chi
(Infrequent)
Northern Deep-brown Dart
(Infrequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Infrequent)
Campion
(Infrequent)
Lychnis
(Infrequent)
White-line Dart
(Regular)
Dark Sword-grass
(Regular)
Flame Shoulder
(Infrequent)
True Lover's Knot
(Infrequent)
Six-striped Rustic
(Infrequent)