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)

Global guidelines on how to set up a Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is available as a report from GEO BON

Does not find the manual for Butterfly Monitoring in your language? you can help us in the translation and we will share it to do, the more available for other volunteers.