Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Scarlet lily beetles mating

Scarlet lily beetles mating

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Original – Scarlet lily beetles (Lilioceris lilii) mating in Oxfordshire, UK

Reason

High quality large image. FP on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

scarlet lily beetle

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects

Creator

Charlesjsharp

• Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:43, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
• Question What is the white thing on them? Some sort of seed fluff? It's near-perfect except that. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.9% of all FPs} 19:28, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

• I guess so. They are less than 10mm long. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:00, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

• Presuming you don't have a shot of similar quality without the fluff, Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.9% of all FPs} 22:46, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

• No, I don't. They are pests and this pair were very very lucky to be removed from the lily and not killed. I wouldn't wnat to edit out natural stuff. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:37, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

• Support. MER-C 08:14, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:03, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

• Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:03, 28 June 2022 (UTC)