Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Drohnenpuppen 79d.jpg

Pupae of the drones of the western honey bee

The pupae of western honey bee drones. After passing through their larval stage within cells of the honeycomb, and continue there until they develop into their adult form. Due to the protection this provides, the pupae do not need to be surrounded by a chrysalis or other shell, but are instead have their legs and proboscis free.

Reason

It's a beautifully instructive image. Wonderful detail, showing two stages of development of the pupa. Plus, by showing a stage not as photographed as the imago, it stands out from the crowd of insect pictures. This user has a lot of other wonderful photos worthy of nomination, by the way.

Articles this image appears in

Pupa, Western honey bee

Creator

Waugsberg (User page on commons/on German Wikipedia)

• Support both as nominator — Adam Cuerden ^talk 06:24, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support Picture 1 Seems to be more authentic, what with the larvae physically inside their cells. SingCal 13:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

A possible alternative/second featured picture, by the same photographer. Shows the developmental stages well.

• Support nice, informative picture--Southern Texas 16:43, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support either - If you nominated these separately, I'd support them both. The top one is so pretty, and the bottom one is so enc and informative. --TotoBaggins 17:42, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support picture 1 as is, but the photo could be lit better. Spikebrennan 18:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support 1 Superb. ~ Veledan • Talk 22:20, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support first pic - very nice indeed. Matt Deres 23:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support first. Debivort 00:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support 1, oppose 2. I agree with the other users' comments about image 1, but I oppose the second one because the background is inaccurate as far as depicting where these bees are while they develop. A plain white (or other) background would have been better. Calliopejen1 10:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support 1, oppose 2. For many of the reasons Calliopejen1 said. Zakolantern 18:26, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Drohnenpuppen_79d.jpg MER-C 03:40, 29 July 2007 (UTC)