This is an image of a white plume moth, a photograph taken of a specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse in August of 2011. The moths really look like this in life, too. But this one was on display in a museum. The photo was taken as part of Projet Phoebus, a push by the museum to get photographs of all of its collection on Wikimedia Commons.
I think 10 years ago, we were as a planet less cynical about the potential of the internet as a repository of knowledge and a site of shared projects. I’m glad this one existed, or exists, still. Stark and monochromatic. White wings spread wide.