Peter Sutton

Peter Sutton was born in Essex in 1968 and spent his formative years studying the natural history of Crawley, in West Sussex. He has a passion for insects, fishes, reptiles and amphibians, among his general interest in natural history, and has a particular interest in the Orthoptera and their allies, becoming the national recording scheme organiser for this group of insects in 2002. His current interests include writing a second book about the larger water beetles of Britain and Ireland, the natural history of Bushy Park (London’s second largest royal deer park), and, having been inspired by Gerald Durrell, a natural history of the Greek island of Corfu.
Peter writes the annual grasshoppers and relatives column in the wildlife reports.