I always knew this butterfly as the wall brown but now it is just called the wall which is, in my view, a rather odd name! They certainly likes stone walls and can be seen sunning themselves and absorbing heat from the stones on days when it's not so warm. Its first love is an area of bare, sun-baked earth to rest on, often footpaths.
The wall has declined considerably in central and southern England in recent years but here we are treated to them along the coastal cliffs where conditions obviously still suit them.
They have two broods each year. The first are on the wing from late April until the end of May and the second brood emerge from mid-July and they can be then seen until the end of October if the weather is favourable.
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