Wall brown
The wall brown is a butterfly in warm orange and brown, with black lines and markings across its wings. It can be seen from spring to autumn. It likes forest edges, clearings and sunny bushy places.
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Fun facts
It flies from April to October, with two or three families of butterflies in one year.
Its eggs are pale green and almost round, like tiny peas.
The caterpillar is whitish green with little white dots and grey bristles.
The chrysalis is usually green, but sometimes it is almost black.
It can live high in the mountains, up to 3,000 metres.
Most asked questions about Wall brown
?What does the wall brown eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. Its caterpillars eat grasses.
?How big is the wall brown?
Its wings are about 3.5 to 5 centimetres across.
?When can you see a wall brown?
From April to October, depending on where you are.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lasiommata megera
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Wall
Where the facts come from
- Lasiommata megera (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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