Welcome to the Slovakia BMS!
This window is for the information on the Slovakia Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, BMS to monitor Slovakian butterflies.
Be part of the eBMS community counting Butterflies!
Contact
Please, contact the coordinators before starting a transect, they can help you where to do your transect and give advice on butterfly monitoring.
If you would like to participate in monitoring butterflies in Slovakia, contact the coordinators. Check the scheme list or write to the email:[email protected]
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 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.
There are other methodologies to count butterflies, like 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 Latvia 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
Monitoring Material
Field Guides for butterfly Identification
The Field Guides of eBMS want to be useful to identify butterflies in the field in an easy and simple way. The butterfly species are organised by families and genus and there are symbols identifying useful characteristics to identify butterflies species easily. We created many different Field Guides for countries, regions or areas.
Go to the page Field Guides on the menu to see the different Field Guides.
Slovakia
This guide aims to facilitate the identification of 99 more common butterfly species with the highest probability of finding them in Slovakia. This selection covers both common and rare species, including those with a regional range. This guide is also a help for those wishing to get involved in butterfly monitoring in Europe.
You can download the pdf guide Field Guide of Slovakia directly to your device or print it directly (select the booklet option in the printer).
-Transect Manual
Discover the transect methodology for butterfly monitoring, the methodology used to monitoring 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.
eBMS Information
Here you can download an eBMS leaflet explaining the network, the project ABLE for promoting butterfly monitoring in Europe and some simple steps to do a butterfly transect in your area.