The Dingy Skipper is a moth-like butterfly that can be easily missed especially when it basks on stones or bare ground. It is dark grey brown and has a neat row of white dots along the edge of each wing. Occurring where Common Bird's-foot trefoil grows and bare ground is showing. Limestone grassland on the North York Moors, coal tips, railway yards and sidings in South and West Yorkshire and the Wolds.
Yorkshire Butterfly Atlas