Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Tachina fly Gonia capitata feeding honey.jpg

File:Tachina fly Gonia capitata feeding honey.jpg, featured

Voting period ends on 3 Apr 2009 at 02:37:15

•  Info c/u/n by -- Richard Bartz (talk) 02:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Info Closeup of Tachina fly (Gonia capitata) while feed on honey. You can see the complex and impressive proboscis very well.
•  Support The return of the fly -- Richard Bartz (talk) 02:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support !!!--Mbz1 (talk) 03:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support So cute :-) Lycaon (talk) 07:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support - Lovely creature! What are those disgusting appendixes growing from the proboscis? And do these critters never shave? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:20, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I assume it's a bottle opener :-) ... Hans ? --Richard Bartz (talk) 14:32, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

... or some kind of sexual apparatus (mother nature is the great master)? ... -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:50, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

It's a tasting organ called Palpi (though the concept of 'taste' in insects is probably completely different to the way we understand it in humans) --Richard Bartz (talk)

They are actually maxillary palps, which have indeed an olfactory function. Lycaon (talk) 09:09, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Support Great! —kallerna™ 09:03, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! --Lošmi (talk) 16:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 19:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support scharf --Böhringer (talk) 21:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support 2nd best macro on wiki --Muhammad (talk) 07:18, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support amazing detail --ianaré (talk) 16:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support, now this is awesome. --Aqwis (talk) 17:03, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Noise on eyeball, easily viewed in the thumbnail even. -- carol (talk) 17:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --D-Kuru (talk) 19:14, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support--Biso (talk) 01:29, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 19:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pro2 (talk) 15:48, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --libertad0 ॐ (talk) 18:11, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Mbdortmund (talk) 19:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Simonizer (talk) 21:51, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose No WOW. --Karel (talk) 21:47, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Now wow?? Or is it because its an insect picture? I don't think these kind of votes should be accepted. [1], [2]--Muhammad (talk) 03:53, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Oh well, this opinion can be accepted. I condone this otherwise I end like this :-) --Richard Bartz (talk) 12:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
    • The quality of a photo which can be summed up as "wow" is exactly what separates a Quality Image from a Featured Picture. After all, the technical quality requirements of QIs and FPs are nearly the same, while FPs have an additional requirement: "interestingness" or "wow". Yes, "interestingness" is subjective, but that is necessary and even a good thing, in my eyes. --Aqwis (talk) 17:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
    • You are right but I still don't understand this vote... --Mbdortmund (talk) 21:12, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
      • Perhaps he meant to say there was no WoW? :P Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 01:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
        • Seems more like it ;) --Muhammad (talk) 04:55, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
        • The "no WOW" has always been used as a revenge vote --Wilfredo Rodríguez (talk) 18:09, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
        • Sarcastic ShockwaveLover is 100% right. --Karel (talk) 21:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

result: 18 support, 2 oppose => featured Pbroks13 (talk) 07:27, 3 April 2009 (UTC)