Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cochineal

Cochineal

Original - A cluster of female cochineal insects (Dactylopius coccus) feeding on a cactus.

Reason

Great macro, and a type of insect form that gets neglected. For that matter, how about some isopod FPCs? You know, pillbugs?

Articles this image appears in

Cochineal

Creator

Frank Vincentz

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 04:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• Question Are the feeding on an Opuntia? --KP Botany (talk) 10:16, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

• That's the only genus they feed on, so yes. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Then how about put it in the Cochineal section of Opuntia. I'm no good at formatting images in articles. Thx. After which I support purely for its EV. Not the greatest picture, but it tells a huge story we're not telling here otherwise. --KP Botany (talk) 20:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose. An interesting subject but not one that is described at all well by the photo. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 14:12, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

No quorum Not promoted --~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 17:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)