Welcome to Hungary BMS
In this tab, you will find specific information about the Hungarian butterfly monitoring scheme.
About the Hungarian BMS
The Hungarian butterfly monitoring scheme began operating in 2016, and currently collects all transect count, 15-minute count and moth trap data through the eBMS website and ButterflyCount App. This BMS continues to grow thanks to the support of the Szalkay József Hungarian Lepidopterist Society (SzJMLE) and the continued efforts of Andras Szabadfalvi, the National Coordinator, and Orsolya Dombi, Coordinator.
Getting started - Contact us
Are you new to butterfly counts? Do you need help identifying butterflies?
Please contact the coordinators before starting a transect, they can help you place your transect and give advice on butterfly monitoring.
Please contact [email protected]
If you have problems or suggestions specifically regarding the eBMS app or website, please contact eBMS by writing [email protected].
Join the community
If you’re new or would like to keep up with the monitoring scheme’s updates, consider joining other like-minded citizen scientists through the Hungarian Lepidoptera Monitoring Network Facebook Group. There, you can share your butterfly photos and monitoring experiences with more than 1.1k butterfly and moth enthusiasts and get help identifying species.
Supporting materials and resources
Below are field guides and other useful resources to help you identify the butterflies present in your geographical area. If you are instead looking for materials about broader butterfly group identification or about butterfly count methodologies, please visit the materials tab.
The Szalkay József Hungarian Lepidopterist Society's website
The website includes informative sections on butterflies and moths, as well as an extensive gallery of species found in Hungary. This website is only available in Hungarian, but may be easily translated into English with the Google Translate tool.
Checklist of the Hungarian Lepidoptera
This 2016 publication by Pastorális, Buschmann & Ronkay lists all butterfly and moth species known to occur, or to have occurred, in Hungary. The publication is mostly in Hungarian and includes an introduction in English.
View the PDF on ResearchGate
Hungarian BMS Guide
An informative brochure describing the butterfly monitoring scheme and how to contribute through butterfly transect counts. This brochure is only available in Hungarian.
Click here to view the PDF
European Butterfly Group's Guide to Hungarian Butterflies
A detailed downloadable PDF by the European Butterfly Group on Hungary's butterflies with an extensive bibliography, details of where to go and what to see. Please note that the included contact information may be outdated.
Click here to view the PDF