Catching butterflies

A milkweed plant at Fossil and Prairie Park in Rockford. Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed before going into a chrysalis.

Larke Beevers-Purdy, 4, shows Floyd County Naturalist Heidi Reams a butterfly she caught. Press photos by Thomas Nelson.

A male Monarch butterfly that Floyd County Naturalist Heidi Reams used to demonstrate what butterflies they were looking for.

Francis Xavier Miller, 5, holds a jar with a recently caught butterfly at Fossil Prairie Park.

A group looks for monarch butterflies at the Fossil and Prairie Park Sunday, Sept. 17.

A clouded sulphur butterfly at Fossil Prairie Park.