Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Noctua pronuba caterpillar defensive - Keila.jpg

File:Noctua pronuba caterpillar defensive - Keila.jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family_:_Noctuidae_(Owlet_Moths)
•  Info all by Ivar (talk) 13:20, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ivar (talk) 13:20, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 17:56, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 18:46, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 21:06, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 21:35, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Great. That's another little creature, isn't it? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:55, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

•  Comment body length (37 mm) added to file description. --Ivar (talk) 06:11, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

•  Support --IamMM (talk) 04:44, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:18, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 08:16, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Lmbuga (talk) 12:39, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 17:40, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 17:46, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 05:48, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 09:24, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Fischer.H (talk) 09:49, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:09, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 13:12, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Question How come it is on the underside of the leaf? Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:49, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

• Charlesjsharp: this is a home studio photo, the leaf is chosen background. --Ivar (talk) 16:58, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
• OK, thanks, I think I must oppose  Oppose as it is not as in nature. I don't like the 'studio' composition which uses an upside-down leaf. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:10, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
• Charlesjsharp: imho this not a valid reason to oppose. Which FPC rule says, that photo has to look like taken in the nature? --Ivar (talk) 17:28, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

• I've changed my reason for oppose, Ivar; no intention to use an invalid reason. Nothing wrong with moving the caterpillar, but the man-handling has produced the 'defensive' position, rather than a natural predator, which is not ideal. Many caterpillar species curl up and play dead. Could an alternative in your studio have been to let it acclimatise then take the photo. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:46, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

•  Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 14:08, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 19 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 00:24, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family_:_Noctuidae_(Owlet_Moths)