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.
Yellow Horned
(Very frequent)
Emperor Moth
(Very frequent)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
(Very frequent)
Flame Carpet
(Very frequent)
Streamer
(Very frequent)
Red-Green Carpet
(Very frequent)
Mottled Grey
(Very frequent)
Water Carpet
(Very frequent)
Double-striped Pug
(Very frequent)
Brindled Pug
(Very frequent)
Golden-rod Pug
(Very frequent)
Barred Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Early Tooth-striped
(Very frequent)
Orange Underwing
(Very frequent)
Brown Silver-line
(Very frequent)
Early Thorn
(Very frequent)
Rannoch Brindled Beauty
(Very frequent)
Ringed Carpet
(Very frequent)
Grey Birch
(Very frequent)
Common Heath
(Very frequent)
Puss Moth
(Very frequent)
Lunar Marbled Brown
(Very frequent)
Herald
(Very frequent)
Early Grey
(Very frequent)
Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Brindled Ochre
(Frequent)
Pine Beauty
(Very frequent)
Clouded Drab
(Very frequent)
Common Quaker
(Very frequent)
Small Quaker
(Very frequent)
Powdered Quaker
(Very frequent)
Hebrew Character
(Very frequent)
Dark Sword-grass
(Very frequent)
Red Chestnut
(Very frequent)
Least Black Arches
(Very frequent)
Garden Carpet
(Frequent)
May Highflyer
(Regular)
Spruce Carpet
(Frequent)
Grey Pine Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Frequent)
Striped Twin-spot Carpet
(Frequent)
V-Pug
(Frequent)
March Moth
(Frequent)
Pale Brindled Beauty
(Frequent)
Dotted Border
(Regular)
Lesser Swallow Prominent
(Frequent)
Scarce Prominent
(Frequent)
Ruby Tiger
(Regular)
Nut-tree Tussock
(Frequent)
Angle Shades
(Frequent)
Pale Pinion
(Frequent)
Pale-shouldered Brocade
(Regular)
Glaucous Shears
(Regular)
Dwarf Pug
(Regular)
Oak Beauty
(Regular)
Peppered Moth
(Regular)
Pebble Prominent
(Regular)
Garden Tiger
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Regular)
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
(Infrequent)
Red Twin-spot Carpet
(Infrequent)
Yellow-ringed Carpet
(Infrequent)
Narrow-winged Pug
(Infrequent)
Barred Umber
(Infrequent)
Brimstone Moth
(Infrequent)
Speckled Yellow
(Infrequent)
Lunar Thorn
(Infrequent)
Mother Shipton
(Infrequent)
Beautiful Yellow Underwing
(Infrequent)
Shears
(Infrequent)
Oak Nycteoline
(Infrequent)