Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black Soldier fly Mating

 
Original - Black soldier flies, Hermetia illucens mating. The soldier fly has no functioning mouth parts and instead spends its adult lives in search of mates and reproducing
Reason
Good quality, high resolution with encyclopedic value, contributing to an article which previously had no images showing this stage of the insect's life.
Articles this image appears in
Hermetia illucens
Creator
Muhammad

Promoted File:Black soldier flies mating.jpg --Wronkiew (talk) 06:25, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]