NOTHING encapsulates the beauty and fragility of our native wildlife more vividly than our butterflies. They dance through the British spring and summer like petals on the breeze, silent, bright and exquisite. For Shropshire-based wildlife and landscape photographer Andrew Fusek Peters, each one is a miracle. ‘I love their elegance and aerial eloquence, as well as their symbolism and their hope,’ he rhapsodises. ‘They are phenomenal.’
This enthusiasm is thrillingly showcased in Mr Fusek Peters’s new book, , which charts his five-year journey to capture images of all 58 of our native species. The timescale involved tells its own tale as to the rarity of many of these butterflies, some of
