Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Spilosoma canescens

Spilosoma canescens caterpillar

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Jul 2011 at 05:58:21 (UTC)

Original - The larval form of Spilosoma canescens, a moth found in Australia, busy eating a pumpkin leaf.

Reason: Subject is in sharp focus, and detailed enough to see the details of the hairy caterpillar. I think the colours and composition are nice. There's no comparable image on commons to illustrate the larval form of this species, and it's active and non-studio, so it has high EV IMO.
Articles in which this image appears: Spilosoma canescens
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: 99of9

Support as nominator --99of9 (talk) 05:58, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I like the partially-eaten leaf expecially. We only have two other caterpillar FPs so it's not like the flowers and mushrooms and table fruits. This species is not as colorful as the other two and the pic a little different in being less of a blowup on the animal, but I really like the "leaf and bug" together duality. And blowing up more on this thing would not be as exciting as one of the ones with lots of color variation. TCO (reviews needed) 08:40, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Thanks for your support. There are 7 larvae I can find. None of them are quite as hairy either :) --99of9 (talk) 11:12, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch. Only the 4th shows leaf-eating (and seems crowded and bizarre). I think your photo is a bit more of an "action shot" than a pure species ID pic. But that's good. We need action shots too. I am a fan.TCO (reviews needed) 11:25, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Nice shot with obvious encyclopaedic value. Would be good to expand the article to more than a stub (great opportunity for a DYK). --Elekhh (talk) 06:36, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The two cites I added were the only two relevent articles on Google Scholar. --99of9 (talk) 07:41, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support JJ Harrison (talk) 07:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is on par with other current FPs of insects. Pine _(GreenPine) ^t 17:41, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Spilosoma canescens caterpillar.jpg --RunningOnBrains^(talk) 10:20, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]