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 Unusual, or for beginners 'Unusual' against them should be checked with your CMR.
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
(Regular)
Red Carpet
(Very unusual)
Garden Carpet
(Regular)
Flame Carpet
(Very unusual)
July Highflyer
(Frequent)
Pine Carpet
(Very unusual)
Spruce Carpet
(Very unusual)
Northern Spinach
(Unusual)
Small Phoenix
(Very unusual)
Red-Green Carpet
(Unusual)
Autumn Green Carpet
(Very unusual)
Common Marbled Carpet
(Very unusual)
Dark Marbled Carpet
(Frequent)
Autumnal Moth
(Very unusual)
Twin-spot Carpet
(Very unusual)
Streak
(Very unusual)
Brimstone Moth
(Very unusual)
Mottled Umber
(Very unusual)
Herald
(Unusual)
Snout
(Unusual)
Vapourer
(Regular)
Silver Y
(Very frequent)
Beautiful Golden Y
(Very unusual)
Anomalous
(Very unusual)
Pale Mottled Willow
(Very unusual)
Angle Shades
(Very frequent)
Haworth's Minor
(Frequent)
Crescent
(Very unusual)
Frosted Orange
(Very unusual)
Rosy Rustic
(Very frequent)
Large Ear
(Very unusual)
Ear Moth
(Very unusual)
Flounced Rustic
(Very unusual)
Large Wainscot
(Regular)
Bulrush Wainscot
(Very unusual)
Small Wainscot
(Very frequent)
Dark Arches
(Frequent)
Common Rustic
(Frequent)
Rosy Minor
(Very unusual)
Pink-barred Sallow
(Frequent)
Sallow
(Unusual)
Red-line Quaker
(Unusual)
Brick
(Frequent)
Red Sword-grass
(Unusual)
Dun-bar
(Unusual)
Black Rustic
(Very unusual)
Brindled Ochre
(Frequent)
Antler Moth
(Unusual)
Smoky Wainscot
(Unusual)
White-line Dart
(Very unusual)
Dark Sword-grass
(Frequent)
Flame Shoulder
(Very unusual)
Ingrailed Clay
(Unusual)
Small Square-spot
(Regular)
Large Yellow Underwing
(Very frequent)
Lesser Yellow Underwing
(Very unusual)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
(Frequent)
Dotted Clay
(Very unusual)
Heath Rustic
(Very unusual)
Square-spot Rustic
(Very frequent)
Setaceous Hebrew Character
(Frequent)
Autumnal Rustic
(Very frequent)