The Large Skipper is a fairly common butterfly in Yeldham. It produces just one brood per year and over-winters as larvae on uncut stems of its food plant, Cocksfoot and various other grasses.

Specimens with paler mottling look rather like Small Skippers. The male brand of the Large Skipper is much broader and more diagonal across the wing. As in the Small Skippers, the antennae inner/lower surfaces below the tips are often quite bright orange in the males.

The adults are on the wing in June and July with just the odd one or two in early August.