Using the UKBMS website
UKBMS Online Guidance - illustrated guidance for new UKBMS users getting started with data entry
Setting up a new transect online - detailed illustrated guidance note for setting up a new transect route on the UKBMS website
Health & Safety
Health and Safety Guidance - for recorders
Standard Risk Assessment - Monitoring & Recording - for volunteer recorders
Traditional Transects (Pollard Walks)
The following resources include guidance and recording forms for those involved in butterfly transects:
G1 - Monitoring Butterfly Numbers - summary information for recorders
G2 - Field Guidance Notes for Butterfly Transects
G3 - Guidance for Filling in Form F1 (habitat & management details)
G4 - Habitat Classification for Butterfly Transects
F1(S) - Butterfly Transect Details Form (Small Site)
F1(L) - Butterfly Transect Details Form (Large Site)
F2 - WEEKLY RECORDING FORM - Butterfly Transects
F2 REGIONAL ADAPTATIONS : Surrey, Sussex & Kent, Somerset & Bristol, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Training Videos
Standard Transects
UKBMS Standard Transect Methodology
Setting up a standard transect route - field notes
Adding a transect online - Mapping
Adding a transect online - Troubleshooting
Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey
Setting up a WCBS route - field notes
Please note some WCBS squares will appear with 10 orange centroid squares. In this case, please contact [email protected] before mapping your square.
Non-transect
Purple Hairstreak Monitoring - mapping your survey points online
General
Accessing your data - Annual Summary
Accessing your data - Section Plot
Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS)
The following resources include guidance and recording forms for those involved in the WCBS including in BBS squares:
WCBS Guidance for surveys on butterfly only squares (i.e. not BTO BBS squares)
WCBS Guidance for BTO BBS recorders
WCBS recording form (for all recorders)
Non-Transect Methods (inc. timed counts/single species)
The following resources include guidance and recording forms for those interested in timed counts or other non-transects:
Ng1 -Timed Count Guidance Notes
Nf1 - Timed Count Recording Form
Ng2 - Marsh Fritillary Larval Web Guidance Notes
Nf3 - Larval Web Recording Form
Ng3 - Brown Hairstreak Egg Count Guidance Notes
Nf4 - Brown Hairstreak Egg Count Recording Form
Ng4 - Purple Hairstreak Monitoring Guidance Notes
Ng5 - Black Hairstreak UV Light Monitoring Guidance (draft)
Ng6 - Northern Brown Argus Egg Count Guidance (draft)
Purple Hairstreak Monitoring - mapping guidance
Landowner Letter for Brown Hairstreak Egg Count Surveys
Local monitoring guidance
Guidance for monitoring butterflies at a local scale
Permissions
Forestry England and Butterfly Conservation National Agreement 2024
