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Images with DYK are usually selected for their visual draw, and I suspect that were the sedge picture the only choice, then the nominted hook would not be placed in the lead position at all. Most sedge flowers are visually uninteresting, and so wouldn't be likely to feature on the Main Page. As
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Only suggesting the use of a different picture, and thus repositioning the "(pictured)" text. Although I'm a botanist by training, I think the ant picture is much more visually interesting than the sedge inflorescence.
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is so cool! Did you know that many stick insect eggs are also dispersed by ants? Where seeds have an elaiosome to tempt the ants, the eggs have a spare edible structure called a capitulum.
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I can see your point, but I would prefer the sedge picture if possible, simply because sedges are so frequently overlooked. This is my own little attempt to
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someone who specializes in bryophytes, and who has tried to take photogenic pictures of algae, "I feel your pain". --
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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Based on the above review. I have no preference for ALT.
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Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting: None
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Template talk:Did you know
the article's talk page
Knowledge talk:Did you know
PFHLai
talk
Inflorescence of Carex pilulifera
seeds
Carex pilulifera
dispersed
ant
Myrmica ruginodis
Elisabeth Croft

Stemonitis
talk
07:12, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Length, format, content rules
Cwmhiraeth
talk
13:18, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Source
Cwmhiraeth
talk
13:18, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Interest
Cwmhiraeth
talk
13:18, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Image suitability
Cwmhiraeth

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