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The programs below are divided into five categories: Academic (run by academic researchers), Count (a fixed circle or point that is surveyed by several people with few protocols), Transects (a set route that is surveyed by the same observer several times each year), Opportunistic (sightings can include a range of observations from single individual butterflies observed through coordinated field trips where every species is recorded, but with no protocols and no fixed survey locations), and Monarch (project focused solely on the monarch butterfly).

Note: we are striving to recruit all butterfly monitoring projects to become part of our network, but only current network members are listed below. See our monitoring tracker for a list of ALL monitoring programs (that we are aware of).

BUTTERFLY MONITORING NETWORK MEMBERS (From oldest to most recent)

Art Shapiro's Butterfly Monitoring	1972-Present No. CA	Academic: 11 fixed transects along an elevational gradient in Northern California
North American Butterfly Association's Seasonal Counts	1975-Present North America	Count: ~500 circles with 25km radii are established and groups count all the butterflies they can find in a day
Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network	1987-Present	Transect: ~100 sites throughout Illinois
Massachusetts Butterfly Club	1992-Present	Opportunistic: Organized field trips that occur regularly throughout Massachusetts
Ohio Lepidopterists	1996-Present	Transect: ~70 sites throughout Ohio
Monarch Larvae Monitoring Project	1997-Present North America	Monarch: volunteers monitor milkweed patches throughout North America and track eggs, larvae, and in some cases parasitism
North American Butterfly Association's Sightings Database	1998-Present North America	Opportunistic: A portal for people to register recent and notable butterfly sightings
North American Butterfly Association's Butterflies I've Seen	2001-Present North America	Opportunistic: A portal for people to keep track of their sightings and life lists
Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network	2003-Present	Transect: ~35 sites throughout Florida
Butterfliesandmoths.org	2005-Present North America	Opportunistic: A database for sightings records that must be accompanied by a photograph for expert confirmation
Iowa Butterfly Monitoring Network	2007-Present	Transect: ~18 sites within Iowa
Michigan Butterfly Monitoring Network	2011-Present	Transect: ~10 sites within Michigan
Cascades NPS Butterfly Monitoring Project	2011-Present	Transect: ~8 sites within National Park Service boundaries in the Cascade Mountains

Monitoring programs: Butterfly monitoring programs that are members of our network.

Collaborators: Institutions that support our efforts

People: Meet the people who are part of the network.

Comments and questions should be directed to Leslie Ries (lries@umd.edu)

This project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF award 1147049) to the University of Maryland and the Socio-environmental Synthesis Center.