These stunning and rare pictures show some of the UK's most beautiful butterflies in flight and taking off from flowers. Wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek Peters took three years and more than 150,000 frames to capture 17 species of butterflies. A lot of them were taken in Shropshire and Worcestershire. 

(All photos via VCG.)

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