Talk:Pseudococcus comstocki

A fact from Pseudococcus comstocki appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in a 1980 Japanese study, virgin female adult Comstock mealybugs (examples pictured) were taken from pumpkins so that scientists could extract their sex pheromone to capture the males?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:44, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Comstock mealybug infestation

... that in a 1980 Japanese study, virgin female adult Comstock mealybugs (general infestation pictured) were taken from pumpkins so that scientists could extract their sex pheromone in order to capture the males?

Reviewed: Florence Kirk

Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:43, 28 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Starting review.--Kev min § 14:48, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Article new enough and long enough. All paragraphs cited and sourced to reliable sourcing. Hook fact verified and cited. no policy issues identified in prose, no copyvio issues identified. Looks good to go.--Kev min § 14:58, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Kevin: Is the image fine? SL93 (talk) 23:02, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The image is main page compliant, the thumbnail view is a little indistinct.--Kev min § 23:14, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Kevmin: I found a free use image here that I can upload to Commons. I think it might be better. SL93 (talk) 23:33, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@SL93: That is a much clearer image, I'm fine with adding that one. --Kev min § 00:04, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Kevmin: Awesome. I added it to the nomination and article. SL93 (talk) 00:17, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@SL93: Excellent, the new image is much clearer and would work well on the main page.--Kev min § 15:33, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]