Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Hoverfly January 2008-6.jpg

Eupeodes corollae

Original - A male hoverfly of the Eupeodes corollae species. Male hoverflies are easily recognized by the holoptic eyes, touching at the top of the head. This species is very common in Europe, where it has been used experimentally to control the population of aphids. Though adults are vegetarian, feeding on pollen, larvae feed on aphids.

Reason

high quality depiction of a common species showing characteristic feature of males

Articles this image appears in

Eupeodes corollae, Eupeodes

Creator

Alvesgaspar (talk)

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support Lighting is flat, but its detailed and clear enough. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:12, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
• Comment. Nice image but I notice it is already in a featured picture as part of this poster (File:Syrphidae poster.jpg) also created by Alvesgaspar. Would this preclude it from being an FP itself? I'm not sure. |→ Spaully^₪† 12:32, 27 March 2009 (GMT)
  • That is true but the size of this one is larger and they illustrate different articles. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
    • I would personally agree. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 06:00, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support: Maedin\^talk 18:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support Nice, and good caption too. Fletcher (talk) 22:56, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Hoverfly January 2008-6.jpg MER-C 01:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC)