Monitoring Methodology
Methodology for monitoring butterflies
BCE recommends adopting the method described in the Manual for Butterfly Transect Counts (in English) to do the monitoring of butterflies in Europe. There are several simple rules to follow for starting a new transect in your country.
This Manual for Butterfly Transect Counts has been translated into more languages:
- Transektet me numërim të Fluturave (Albanian)
- Ръководство за мониторинг на дневни пеперуди (Bulgarian)
- Manuál pro Monitoring motýlů (Czech)
- Vejledning til overvågning af Sommerfugle (Danish)
- Comptages par transects des papillons (French)
- チョウ類の トランセクト調査 チョウのモニタリングマニュアル (Japanese)
- A nappali lepke monitorozás kézikönyve (Hungaria)
- Manuale per il monitoraggio delle Farfalle (Italian)
- Motylowy Spacer (Polish)
- Manual de Monitorização de Borboletas (Portuguese)
- Manual pentru monitorizarea fluturilor de zi (Romanian)
- Упутство за мониторинг дневних лептира (Serbian)
- Monitorovanie motýľov v transekte (Slovak)
- Manual para el Seguimiento de Mariposas (Spanish)
Global guidelines on how to set up a Butterfly Monitoring Scheme are available as a report from GEO BON.
Can’t find the manual for Butterfly Monitoring in your language? You can help us translate the manual and we will make it, available to other volunteers who might want to start a transect.
