Welcome to the Lithuania BMS!
This page shows the information of the Lithuania Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, BMS to monitor Lithuanian butterflies.
Be part of the eBMS community counting them all!
Be in contact:
- Lithuanian BMS Facebook Page: BMS Lietuvoje, dieninių drugių stebėjimaior
You could share your pictures of butterflies and be in contact with the community and coordinators, sharing experiences and doubts regarding butterfly monitoring.
Contact directly the coordinators by email:
Eglė Vičiuvienė: eviciuviene@gmail.com
Inga Banytė: ingbanyt@gmail.com
Methodologies
The basic methodology for a BMS is the Transect, a fixed route that is visited frequently to count butterfly species present and their abundances. Thanks to this method of repetitive counts we count to determine the butterfly trends and their current status. Help us in the protection of butterflies by doing a transect close to your house or working place like thousand of volunteers in Europe. See more information on how to do a transect on the page Methods or below on this page.
If you are not able to do a transect or you would like to try other methodologies, there is another methodology to count butterflies for eBMS, the 15-min Counts collected through the ButterflyCount mobile application, where your GPS tracks your route while counting butterflies for 15 minutes. All the data collected on this website will be shared with the Lithuania BMS.
This free resource makes it easy to keep track of what you see while making your data openly available for scientific research, education, and conservation.
To see more information on the ButterflyCount app check the page: https://butterfly-monitoring.net/ebms-app
Materials Lithuanian BMS
- Field Guide Lithuania
A field guide to identify 101 most common butterfly species in Lithuania. This Guide aims to be useful for identifying butterflies in the field in an easy and simple way. Butterflies are divided into families, presenting symbols to mark specific characteristics with which to identify them and with information about ease to see them. Also, this Guide includes an explanation of the methodologies to monitor butterflies (transects and 15-min Counts).
You can download the pdf directly to your device or print it directly (select the booklet option in the printer):
How to print the Field Guides:
The order of the pages is organised to print, you just need to select the booklet option and both sides to print your Field Guide in the printer. When you have the two sheets printed, just fold the sheets for the middle and organise them following the number of the pages.
Acknowledgments to Giedrius Švitra; Paolo Mazzei, Marco Bonifacino, Raniero Panfili y Daniel Morel (www.leps.it); Izabella Dziekanska, Marcin Sielezniew, Albert Vliegenthart and Chris van Swaay for providing pictures for the creation of the Field Guides. Also, to the designer that created the different butterfly shapes from pictures, Eveline van der Jagt and the edition were done by Cristina G. Sevilleja.
- Transect Manual 
Discover the transect methodology for butterfly monitoring, the methodology used to monitor butterflies and understand their conservation status. In this manual, you will learn the simple and basic rules to follow when performing a transect.
eBMS Transect Manual (English)
Download the Field Sheet (pdf English) for registering your data on the field
- eBMS Guidelines
Download the complete eBMS guide on this link (in English). It includes information on how to create new transects, edit your transects, add visits and see where to generate the graphs of your data.
Some parts of the guide could change, the website is updating.
Lithuanian Entomological Society
The Lithuanian Entomological Society is an independent, voluntary scientific-social organization. Its goal is to unite entomologists working in our country, to raise their creative initiative in solving theoretical and practical tasks of science, to promote the achievements of entomology in society.
You can contact the BMS in many ways: email: info@entomologai.lt, website: www.entomologai.lt or
Facebook page of the Lithuanian Entomological Society: Lietuvos entomologų draugija
