With over 2,000 described species, this is the largest skipper butterfly subfamily.

He is credited as an authority on many insects, including the Large Skipper butterfly.

The previous year it was small coppers; in other summers large skippers and small heaths.

One week on, Countryfile was presenting a hammed-up view of the large blue, with the presenter calling a large skipper butterfly "a moth".

Coeliades is a genus of large skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) found in Subsaharan Africa.

Bear Island, part of Hammocks Beach State Park, is completely undeveloped and has the largest skipper population.

There is some dispute however about whether the Large Skipper should not better placed in O. venata as a subspecies sylvanus or faunus.

The faint chequered pattern on both the upperside and underside help to distinguish the Large Skipper from these two orange Skippers.

A little while ago I mentioned Countryfile's achievement in calling a large skipper butterfly a moth and identifying the call of a lapwing as a "tree sparrow".

The habitat and flora encourages a good range of invertebrates and butterflies include Large Skipper, Ringlet, Marbled White and Common Blue.

Sightings of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly are recorded here, as are populations of Ringlet, Large Skipper and Marbled White.

Cowslip, Dyer's greenweed, Common spotted orchids and bird's-foot trefoil are amongst the flowers to be found, and numerous butterflies include Meadow Brown, Marbled White and Large Skipper.

The name was long used for the Large Skipper of Europe, but it actually refers to its Far Eastern sister species and the Large Skipper is now called O. sylvanus.

Often confused with the Large Skipper Ochlodes venata, this species is easily distinguished by the numerous white spots on the underside hindwings, and the tips of the upper forewings tend to be darker than those of the Large Skipper.

The Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family, which occurs throughout Europe.