Other butterfly species that frequent the area are the common blue, marbled white, wall brown and small and large skippers.

[5] The eastern bank is called Hogtrough Bottom and has a mixture of taller grasses, short sheep’s fescue turf and scrub.

There are lots of scarce species such as bastard toadflax, waxcap and webcap fungi, four-spot orb-weaver and purseweb spiders, but David Bangs, Sussex field naturalists says, "the main delight is the tapestry of summer colours - purple knapweed and felwort, blue scabious, yellow hawkbit and rockrose".

The slopes have a top fringe of gorse and thorn which host the scarce forester and yellow shell moths.

In summer there are many butterflies such as the adonis, silver-spotted skipper and marbled white and the funny bishop’s mitre bug.

Moulsecoombe Estate and Manton allotments and woods are the final block of Bevendean Down Local nature reserve.