Per 
Willow the Wisp
SCP-4616-1-Alpha.
Item #: 4616
Object Class: Keter Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4616-1A, is to be suspended on a fifty watt battery operated lamp, or analogous setup, in the center of a 1253 meter dark-room. These requirements are being met in room #B21 on Bio-Site-23, also designated as Solitary Containment Floor, 23-B21. Site-23's basement level 21 has been made electrically independent from the rest of the facility. Personnel are reminded to maintain SCF: 23-B21, and both adjacent floors without electrical equipment or conveniences whenever prudent.
Wild instances of SCP-4616 are to be captured using high energy output devices. Devices capable of high output electrical discharge are recommended for this task, though incendiary and radioactive devices may also be used. Failing provisions of such items, instances of SCP-4616 are to be reported and tracked until a collection team arrives. Secondary instances of SCP-4616-1 are to be destroyed.
Notes:
As of 5/13/1980, the interior walls of room #23B21 have been lined with two meters of high density electrical insulating mesh. While this upgrade to its containment has negated the necessity to contain SCP-4616 in as large a space as is given to it, no order to relocate SCP-4616 has been made.
As of 10/20/1999, SCP-4616 has been declared 'provisionally extinct outside captivity'.
Description: SCP-4616 is a species of flight capable insect, superficially similar in size and appearance to the imago form of spilosoma lubricipeda (white ermine moth), with the notable difference that they have no yet discovered egg, larval, or pupa stages of development.
Live instances of SCP-4616 possess physically intangibility and remain in flight for the entirety of their lives, unable to rest on any surface until they die, usually of starvation; SCP-4616 are capable of using their intangibility to insert themselves foreign material, preferring to do so with objects containing or expelling non-trivial quantities of energy (when compared to the rest of their surroundings). SCP-4616 appear to feed on energy with no known limit to this ability beyond a small appetite. Dissection of deceased instances SCP-4616 has revealed a complicated biology wholly dissimilar to an insect's. It is believed that SCP-4616, through metabolic processes involving the ██████ organ, are able to achieve intangibility by refining their diet of raw energy into a unique particle dubbed the "anti-█████-█████." Anti-█████-█████ particles are not known to occur naturally. When feeding, SCP-4616 radiate within the visible light spectrum in a variety of colors.
SCP-4616-1 refers to hives of SCP-4616. These hives are constructed of a thin membrane of glass. How these hives are constructed given SCP-4616's inability to interact physically with the world, is unknown. SCP-4616-1 typically house between forty to one hundred sixty instances of SCP-4616 at a time. Due to the sizeable numbers of SCP-4616 at any time within an instance of SCP-4616-1, they typically glow very brightly, having reached a maximum recorded luminosity of 325 lumen.
SCP-4616 are born, hatched, and/or incubated within their hives. The method by which they reproduce is unknown given that they are apparently incapable of physically interacting with each other due to their intangibility. Notably however, SCP-4616 do possess sexual organs.
Addendum 4616.1: Behavior.
SCP-4616 flock together when feeding. Being intangible even to other instances of SCP-4616, they demonstrate no capacity for social interaction, neither competing nor cooperating to secure a food source. Instances of SCP-4616 have a habit of seeking out new energy sources even when one is plentiful and available to them. This habit can cause surges in wild populations of SCP-4616, and is the main contributor to their demise.
Audio Dissertation: Dr. Shamn's proposal.
Gentlemen and women of the review board, my name is Dr. Shamn.
Today I will presenting Security-Proposal
EXPAND ON As of 5/13/1980
EXPAND ON As of 10/20/1999
