Butterfly Recording County Plans If you have a particular walk you enjoy, it s easy to access and you want to monitor butterflies along this route for a number of years, then please establish a transect wherever you want! However, there are areas and species that are not being sufficiently recorded at present and the following county plans are guides to help identify how we can remedy this across schemes: Butterfly Atlas Project 2017-2021, Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, Five Visit Monitoring Scheme and Single Species Monitoring. Counties within Northern Ireland have also been included to aid all-island co-ordination of recording for the Butterfly Atlas Project and all-island analyses of monitoring scheme records. How to interpret the maps: No. of current monitoring scheme transects No. of additional transects needed and where they re needed e.g. in yellow areas either 6 more Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme transects are needed or 12 more Five Visit Monitoring Scheme Transects (or a combination of both) If possible, new transects would be in areas that would detect these priority species High priority 10 km2 atlas square Low priority 10 km2 atlas square Squares with ongoing monitoring i.e. already contributing to the atlas For upcoming Single- Species Monitoring Schemes, these are the priority species for this county
Antrim UKBMS Transects: WCBS Transects: Priority areas for future UKBMS: Priority species for future UKBMS/WCBS: Priority species for speciesspecific 6 14 2 in yellow area
Armagh UKBMS Transects: WCBS Transects: Priority areas for future UKBMS: Priority species for future UKBMS/WCBS: 3 3 2 in yellow area Priority species for speciesspecific
Carlow 1 2 (4) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area Purple Hairstreak Favonius quercus
Cavan 1 5 (10) in yellow area
Clare 11 1 (2) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area 1 (2) in pink area Brown Hairstreak Pearl-bordered Fritillary Purple Hairstreak Small Blue Wood White Thecla betulae Boloria euphrosyne Favonius quercus Cupido minimus Leptidea sinapis
Cork 24 2 (4) in yellow area Gatekeepr Purple Hairstreak Pyronia tithonus Favonius quercus
Derry/Londonderry UKBMS Transects: WCBS Transects: Priority areas for future UKBMS: Priority species for future UKBMS/WCBS: 3 2 2 in yellow area Priority species for speciesspecific Purple Hairstreak Hipparchia Semele Favonius quercus
Donegal 7 6 (12) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area 1 (2) in pink area 1 (2) in green area 1 (2) in orange area Small Blue Cupido minimus
Down UKBMS Transects: WCBS Transects: Priority areas for future UKBMS: Priority species for future UKBMS/WCBS: Priority species for speciesspecific 4 12 3 in yellow area 1 in blue area
Dublin 11 1 (2) in yellow area Small Blue Cupido minimus
Fermanagh UKBMS Transects: WCBS Transects: Priority areas for future UKBMS: Priority species for future UKBMS/WCBS: Priority species for speciesspecific 2 5 2 in yellow area 1 in blue area Purple Hairstreak Favonius quercus
Galway 16 2 (4) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area Brown Hairstreak Pearl-bordered Fritillary Purple Hairstreak Small Blue Wood White Thecla betulae Boloria euphrosyne Favonius quercus Cupido minimus Leptidea sinapis
Kerry 6 3 (6) in yellow area 3 (6) in blue area 2 (4) in pink area 2 (4) in green area Gatekeeper Purple Hairstreak Small Blue Pyronia tithonus Favonius quercus Cupido minimus
Kildare 7 1 (2) in yellow area Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
Kilkenny 1 5 (10) in yellow area Gatekeeper Purple Hairstreak Pyronia tithonus Favonius quercus
Laois 2 3 (6) in yellow area
Leitrim 6 1 (2) in yellow area Small Blue Cupido minimus
Limerick 2 6 (12) in yellow area 2 (4) in blue area 1 (2) in pink area Small Blue Cupido minimus
Longford 1 2 (4) in yellow area
Louth 0 2 (4) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area Small Blue Cupido minimus
Mayo 4 4 (8) in yellow area 3 (6) in blue area 1 (2) in pink area 1 (2) in green area 1 (2) in orange area Small Blue Cupido minimus
Meath 4 3 (6) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area
Monaghan 0 2 (4) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area 1 (2) in pink area
Offaly 2 1 (2) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area 1 (2) in pink area 1 (2) in green area
Roscommon 3 3 (6) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area 1 (2) in pink area Purple Hairstreak Small Blue Favonius quercus Cupido minimus
Sligo 6 1 (2) in yellow area Small Blue Cupido minimus
Tipperary 5 4 (8) in yellow area 2 (4) in blue area 2 (4) in pink area 1 (2) in green area Brown Hairstreak Thecla betulae
Tyrone UKBMS Transects: WCBS Transects: Priority areas for future UKBMS: Priority species for future UKBMS/WCBS: Priority species for speciesspecific 0 4 4 in yellow area 3 in blue area 1 in pink area
Waterford 5 1 (2) in yellow area Gatekeeper Purple Hairstreak Pyronia tithonus Favonius quercus
Westmeath 4 2 (4) in yellow area 1 (2) in blue area
Wexford 12 1 (2) in yellow area Gatekeeper Essex Skipper Small Blue Pyronia tithonus Thymelicus lineola Cupido minimus
Wicklow 11 1 (2) in yellow area Gatekeeper Purple Hairstreak Pyronia tithonus Favonius quercus