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In this photographic report in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos I show the wear of the Apollo butterfly (Parnapassius Apollo). In the collage I wanted to show a good quick comparison.
I took the first photo of the butterfly with impeccable scales, colors and wings in early June. That butterfly was fresh out of the chrysalis.
On the other hand, the second photo already shows the butterfly worn out of colors, with a lack of scales and with discolored wing tips. I caught it at the end of its cycle, at the beginning of August.
After approximately two months of flight, humid nights, wind, rain and sun, each day, the butterfly has changed completely.
All butterflies suffer this wear and tear if they reach the end of their cycle and have not been eaten or have died due to other circumstances.
This field “work” is the result of two months searching for the butterfly always in the same valley, but at different times and days. In order to show the wear and tear of such a beautiful butterfly that we have in our Pyrenees.
The photographs were taken in a valley in the Eastern Pyrenees (Girona), but it is better not to reveal the exact place.
