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:
- 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 translate the manual and we will make it, available to other volunteers who might want to start a transect.
