Template:Did you know nominations/Pseudococcus comstocki
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- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:44, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
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Pseudococcus comstocki
- ... that in a 1980 Japanese study, virgin female adult Comstock mealybugs (general infestation pictured) were taken from pumpkins so that scientists could extract their sex pheromone in order to capture the males?
- Reviewed: Florence Kirk
Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:43, 28 April 2021 (UTC).
- Starting review.--Kevmin § 14:48, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Article new enough and long enough. All paragraphs cited and sourced to reliable sourcing. Hook fact verified and cited. no policy issues identified in prose, no copyvio issues identified. Looks good to go.--Kevmin § 14:58, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Kevin: Is the image fine? SL93 (talk) 23:02, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- The image is main page compliant, the thumbnail view is a little indistinct.--Kevmin § 23:14, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Kevin: Is the image fine? SL93 (talk) 23:02, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Article new enough and long enough. All paragraphs cited and sourced to reliable sourcing. Hook fact verified and cited. no policy issues identified in prose, no copyvio issues identified. Looks good to go.--Kevmin § 14:58, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Starting review.--Kevmin § 14:48, 30 April 2021 (UTC)