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File:Lytta.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods#Order_:_Coleoptera_(Beetles)
•  Info created - uploaded - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:27, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:27, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay ^talk 11:13, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Can you confirm how you got the beetle to remain still while 16 frames captured? Is it alive or dead? Did you freeze/chill/glue or use any other potentially harmful tricks that some insect macro photographers use. -- Colin (talk) 11:14, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

• 100% alive. And the reason why the back legs are not totally sharp is just because the lytta moved : I couldn't finished my shots. But I've got more pictures of this beetle with different angles. Here it is visible it's in sustenance on its legs. The body is over the leaf. A dead insect doesn't look like this. But this was an interior shot : no wind, good light, tripod, and the leaf comes from outside. Just this species can stop moving when they're touched or stopped in their course. Released after the session. So that was my technique. Natural but tricky. And needs patience -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:10, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

• I've seen the same thing with some bugs here, touch it and it stops. It seems like this is a defense mechanism they develop. Their predators have different sight than us and can best detect motion. So if the bug feels threatened, it just freezes and hopes the predator will lose interest and go away. --Cart (talk) 12:21, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Ok I support then. -- Colin (talk) 12:43, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --Cart (talk) 12:21, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Peulle (talk) 13:43, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support impressive --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 14:07, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 14:18, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 15:37, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Long time I hadn't come across this great a macro shot - Benh (talk) 17:27, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jakubhal 17:52, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Good job. Charles (talk) 22:02, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Jolie! Tournasol7 (talk) 23:03, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Nice pic and at first I was going to support. There seems to be an article about this species in English + some other languages (I wonder, btw, why the photo has not been used there yet). Very short "article" with no basic infos. So I'd like to know the size of the beetle: when looking at your photo, there seem to be very fine textures of the leaf, which means that it must be a very tiny insect, much less than it looks here in preview. But then, a scale would be useful, as the photo otherwise gives a totally wrong impression about the beetle's size. --A.Savin 23:08, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, you're right, A.Savin, this specimen is small, only 15 mm long approximately. Thanks for the feedback. Now specified in the description. I missed the English page of this lytta, certainly confused with the French page that doesn't have it already. Yet freshly illustrated. Concerning this species, it's true there's nearly no information on Wikipedia, just one line maximum for each rare species inventoried, and even the main page Lytta is almost empty. Here in total we have less than 60 pictures of lyttas on Commons, half of them dedicated to the Lytta vesicatoria -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:35, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

• As said, it would be useful to add a scale (something like here). --A.Savin 13:42, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

I would be opposed to adding a scale on the JPG itself. It makes the image less useful internationally or for different educational purposes. An "other version" file with a scale may be useful to e.g Wikipedia but remember that this is not photographed like an architects plan, but the subject is at an angle to the camera. So the length of the body, for example, can't really be appreciated photographically. Just saying the insect is 15mm long in the file description is surely enough. -- Colin (talk) 13:51, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Agree -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:26, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:19, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Amazing photo of the insect! What's the curved streak in the upper left corner? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:50, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

• Something to be fixed from my layers !  Done Thanks ! -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:27, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:52, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- ParadiseDesertOasis8888 (talk) 07:17, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Pile-on support Daniel Case (talk) 14:18, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 16:03, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 18:01, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 05:20, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Tozina (talk) 05:44, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 21 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 13:54, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods#Order_:_Coleoptera_(Beetles)