Peter B. Hardy

Peter B. Hardy is a retired civil servant and has travelled widely in his passion for Lepidoptera that developed in his school days. He is the Greater Manchester regional coordinator for Butterfly Conservation's Butterflies for the New Millennium atlas recording scheme, for which he received a Butterfly Conservation Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2014, and is author of some 50 scientific papers on butterfly ecology, including a book on the butterflies of Greater Manchester and, as the leading author, a book on the butterflies of the Philippines, where he lived from 2000 to 2002.