WOOD RIVER — The Nature Conservancy will host a BioBlitz 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. June 29 at its Platte River Prairies, approximately two miles south of the Wood River exit from Interstate 80.

Monarch butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis, or a four-part life cycle. Life begins as a tiny egg, which soon hatches an elfin larva, or caterpillar. The caterpillar does much of the heavy ...

Brad Carlson, an entomology student and butterfly expert, leads the group down the Pioneers Park Nature Center trails with a net in one hand and an empty insect jar in the other. A group of eight, ...