| Species | Sites Reporting | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Monarch | 27 | 1996 |
| Common/Orange Sulphur | 26 | 1996 |
| Cabbage White | 24 | 1996 |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | 24 | 1996 |
| Pearl Crescent | 23 | 1996 |
| Common Wood Nymph | 21 | 1996 |
| Silver Spotted Skipper | 21 | 1996 |
| Black Swallowtail | 21 | 1996 |
| Spring/Summer Azure | 20 | 1996 |
| Great Spangled Fritillary | 19 | 1996 |
| Red-Spotted Purple | 18 | 1996 |
| Mourning Cloak | 18 | 1996 |
| Little Wood Satyr | 16 | 1996 |
| Eastern Tailed Blue | 15 | 1996 |
| Peck's Skipper | 14 | 1996 |
| Viceroy | 14 | 1996 |
| Least Skipper | 13 | 1996 |
| Northern Pearly-eye | 13 | 1996 |
| Tawny Edge | 13 | 1996 |
| European Skipper | 12 | 1996 |
| Red Admiral | 12 | 1996 |
| Question Mark | 12 | 1996 |
| Eastern Comma | 11 | 1996 |
| Banded Hairstreak | 10 | 1996 |
| Eyed Brown | 10 | 1996 |
| Silvery Checkerspot | 9 | 1996 |
| Delaware Skipper | 9 | 1996 |
| Buckeye | 8 | 1996 |
| Hobomok Skipper | 8 | 1996 |
| Dun Skipper | 8 | 1996 |
| Black Dash | 7 | 1996 |
| Hackberry Butterfly | 7 | 1996 |
| Coral Hairstreak | 7 | 1996 |
| Baltimore Checkerspot | 5 | 1996 |
| Little Yellow | 5 | 1996 |
| Gray Hairstreak | 5 | 1996 |
| Spicebush Swallowtail | 4 | 1996 |
| Bronze Copper | 4 | 1996 |
| Mulberrywing | 4 | 1996 |
| Broken Dash | 4 | 1996 |
| Northern Cloudywing | 4 | 1996 |
| Common Sootywing | 4 | 1996 |
| Crossline Skipper | 4 | 1996 |
| Checkered Skipper | 3 | 1996 |
| Dion Skipper | 3 | 1996 |
| Acadian Hairstreak | 3 | 1996 |
| Wild Indigo Duskywing | 3 | 1996 |
| Broadwinged Skipper | 3 | 1996 |
| Variegated Fritillary | 3 | 1996 |
| Horace's Duskywing | 3 | 1996 |
| Aphrodite | 2 | 1996 |
| Silver-Bordered Fritillary | 2 | 1996 |
| Gray Comma | 2 | 1996 |
| Snout Butterfly | 2 | 1996 |
| Giant Swallowtail | 2 | 1996 |
| American Painted Lady | 2 | 1996 |
| Long Dash | 2 | 1996 |
| Striped Hairstreak | 2 | 1996 |
| Little Glassywing | 2 | 1996 |
| Leonard's Skipper | 2 | 1996 |
| Regal Fritillary | 2 | 1996 |
| Appalachian Brown | 1 | 1996 |
| Two Spot Skipper | 1 | 1996 |
| American Copper | 1 | 1996 |
| Pipevine Swallowtail | 1 | 1996 |
| Zabulon Skipper | 1 | 1996 |
| Olympia Marble | 1 | 1996 |
| Hayhurst's Scallopwing | 1 | 1996 |
| Gorgone Checkerspot | 1 | 1996 |
| Southern Cloudywing | 1 | 1996 |
| Dusted Skipper | 1 | 1996 |
| Zebra Swallowtail | 1 | 1996 |
| Cloudless Sulphur | 1 | 1996 |
| Edwards Hairstreak | 1 | 1996 |
| Fiery Skipper | 1 | 1996 |
| Juvenal's Duskywing | 1 | 1996 |
| Dogface | 1 | 1996 |
Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network
The Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network engages citizen scientists in the process of collecting quantitative data on butterfly populations.