The Mourning Cloak Butterfly (in Dutch: Rouw Mantel). This butterfly is a daybutterfly out of the butterfly family Nymphalidae, the foxes, pearl butterflies and reflection butterflies.
The Mourning Cloak knows a Palearctic and dissemination Nearctische. The butterfly is most seen in Europe, and appears as vagrant in the Netherlands and Belgium. In the Netherlands the Mourning Cloak was a state butterfly till 1964. The butterfly lived in mixed and coniferous forests
Seen: March till September.
Nice to know: In males the border of the wings are pure yellow and by the females is the border light yellow.
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