Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Wasp colony.jpg

Paper wasp new colony

Original - A young paper wasp queen (Polistes dominulus) is founding a new colony. The nest was made with wood fibers and saliva, and the eggs were laid and fertilized with sperm kept from last year. Now the wasp is feeding and taking care of her heirs. In some weeks, new females will emerge and the colony will expand. Detailed explanations inside.

Reason: Encyclopaedic and high quality illustration of some significant steps in the formation of a new colony of social wasps
Articles this image appears in: Wasp, Paper wasp
Creator: Joaquim Alves Gaspar

Support as nominator Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support looks good to me :) Jellocube27 (talk) 03:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support nice work --Mfield (talk) 03:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice. -- Laitche (talk) 10:46, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good pics, high enc. --Janke | Talk 18:06, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very good work, high value. - PKM (talk) 20:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great images, I learned somthing today. ;). Spencer^T♦^C 11:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Great detail and very informative. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-04-14 18:23Z
Support High EV and photo quality. crassic!^[talk] 23:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Is this the same wasp and the same colony in all 6 pictures? Are they in chronological order? Spikebrennan (talk) 15:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Info - It is the same female and the same colony, but the order is not exactly chronological. The older (#1) is from 12 March, #2 and #3 from 4-5 April and #3-#4 form 12 April. This is not relevant as far as the "story" is concerned because the wasp has been repeating these actions for a long time. The choice of the pictures was motivated by quality and clarity reasons -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:36, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support diego_pmc (talk) 07:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Awesome sequence! Spinach Dip 08:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Wasp colony.jpg MER-C 10:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]