Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Traumatic insemination

Traumatic insemination
Which do you prefer? Original or edit? ~  ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 22:23, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Reason:A stunning illustration: You can see the carapace cracking.
 * Articles this image appears in:Traumatic insemination, bedbug
 * Creator:Rickard Ignell of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
 * Note:Please notify Raul654 of the result of this, as uploader.
 * Support as nominator (Edit1 is best) --Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 16:09, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * (As the one who get permission for the image) Support Raul654 (talk) 16:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * comment I wish the focus were on the point of insertion. de Bivort 17:26, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Given the difficulty of the image - the bedbugs are not going to stay still for you - I think that it's surprisingly good. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 17:49, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. Good heavens, we've sunk from bug porn to bug rape.  Highly encyclopedic though.  May I step on them?  Durova Charge! 21:15, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per Durova.  Zoo Fari  21:49, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. Impressive stuff.  Adds great value.  |→ Spaully₪† 23:58, 2 April 2009 (GMT)
 * Comment You know, I've just been looking closer, and noticed there's some JPEG artefacting. It seems to be almost entirely in the background, but be aware. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 01:07, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support educational value is much more important to me that some background jpeg artifacts. -- m:drini 03:30, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conditional support. Too bad about the focus, but there's not much that can be done about that. There is however a dust particle on the sensor or the mirror, just under the thorax of the male. Full support with bells if you remove that. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 08:50, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Looks good to me.  Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:42, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support for good EV and hard to capture. --Muhammad (talk) 18:54, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support- the important part is in focus. I wonder if she's in pain? J Milburn (talk) 11:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably not -- In the majority of examples of invertebrate nociception noted above, there seems to be little, if any, evidence that the animals' responses persist in anything akin to the manner described for mammals. As Eisemann et al. (1984) have described in a review of the "biological evidence" concerning pain in insects, "No example is known to us of an insect showing protective behavior towards injured parts, such as by limping after leg injury or declining to feed or mate because of general abdominal injuries. On the contrary, our experience has been that insects will continue with normal activities even after severe injury or removal of body parts." Raul654 (talk) 16:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Edit1: Definitely worthy.  Mae din \talk 20:18, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 12:41, 11 April 2009 (UTC)