Mark Parsons

Mark Parsons has been studying Lepidoptera since 1976. He has a BSc in Biology, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES) and is a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society and the Societas Europae Lepidopterologica. He has worked as an entomologist for the Nature Conservancy Council and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, as well as a lepidopterist at the Natural History Museum, London. Mark has produced many notes and articles in entomological journals, and authored or co-authored many papers and other publications on Lepidoptera and Lepidoptera conservation. He also co-authored the Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland (1st and 2nd editions) as well as A Guide to the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Britain and Ireland.