Monitoring Methodology

Methodology for monitoring Butterflies

BCE follows 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.

There is a general manual for Butterfly Monitoring available in English, which has been translated into more languages:

The Monitoring methodology has simple rules for counting butterflies The Monitoring methodology has simple rules for counting butterflies

Butterfly Transect Counts Manual (Bulgarian) (pdf)
Butterfly Transect Counts Manual (Italian) (pdf)
Manual Censos de Borboletas (Portuguese) (pdf)
Manual for Butterfly Monitoring (Hungarian) (pdf)
Manual for Butterfly Monitoring (Serbian, Cyrillic alphabet) (pdf)
Manual para el Seguimiento de Mariposas (Spanish) (pdf)
Manual pentru monitorizarea fluturilor de zi (Manual Romanian) (pdf)
Motylowy spacer miniprzewodnik (Manual Polish) (pdf)

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)
Transektet me numërim të Fluturave (Albanian)

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 to translate it, and we will share it on our site to make it available for other volunteers