The Apollo ( Parnassius apollo L.1758 ) is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. In France, it is mainly found between 1000 and 2000 m, up to 2300 m in the Southern Alps, but in the Vaucluse populations live at 400 to 600 m.
Caterpillars overwinter as juvenile in the egg and hatch in early spring (March). They feed on the leaves of host plants mainly of the family Crassulaceae, namely white stonecrop (Sedum album). At the end of the last larval stage, in May-June , they spin a loose cocoon slightly buried or placed in the dry grass , in which it pupates and hatches after ten days to several weeks.
It flies in one generation from June (sometimes May) to August, sometimes September in the highest places. They preferentially gathers nectar from purple flowers ( centaury and various thistles , scabious ... ), but also feed on other flowers.
In France the Apollo is on the Red List of insects in metropolitan France ( Decree of 22 July 1993 laying down the list of protected national territory insects). It was inscribed on the World list of IUCN since 2008.
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