Taken at dusk in Wuzhishan Tropical Rainforest National Park, China, this image from Ying Zhen’s lab features an Abisara fylla butterfly resting gently on a plant’s tip. Its title embodies the author’s metaphor inspired by “quenching thirst by thinking of plums” (a reference to consoling oneself with illusions). To a field researcher, stranded far from the city at this time, the butterfly is like a slice of a chocolate mousse cake (a tiny sweet treat). Staring at yesterday’s freshly released research news, the researcher drifts into deep thought.