Apollo

Habitat:

This typically mountain species prefers flowery meadows and pastures of the continental European mountains, in Spain, Scandinavia and Central Europe, in the Balkans up to northern Greece and in the Alps between Italy and France.

Notes:

At our campsite in the south of France, we saw these beautiful butterflies all the time. At the last picture you can see one that has just hatched of it's cocoon. The wings are not yet dryed completely.