Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Aphrophora alni mating.jpg

Aphrophora alni mating
Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2015  at 15:53:15 (UTC)
 * Reason:rare capture, good quality macro
 * Articles in which this image appears:Aphrophora alni, Mating
 * FP category for this image:Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
 * Creator:Petar Milošević


 * Support as nominator – PetarM (talk) 15:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak support - I'd much rather get a side view of an individual, but this does have EV. Shame it's hidden in a gallery. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak support Insect porn is under represented but the angle isn't perfecta and the shadows are a bit distracting; I don't know how difficult it would be to get a better image though; presumably insects are at it all the time as there doesn't seem to be a shortage of them, but I suppose it could be a "mate once, produce a billion eggs" deal; TBH, I've not done a lot of research into the sex lives of bugs and it's not top of my bucket list. Belle (talk) 08:20, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Just because they're at it all the time doesn't mean they want someone hovering over them photographing it for all posterity... Lemon martini (talk) 22:51, 17 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Weak support per others. --Tremonist (talk) 13:05, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose – Bleve we've seen plenty of entomological copulation pix before. Sca (talk) 14:32, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * That's 's fancy way of saying "Bugs doing it". Belle (talk) 16:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * And he drives a Bug, too! Sca (talk) 21:12, 9 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Weak oppose - While I'm sure this is a difficult photo to take, it seems a great deal is hidden in the shadows, and the DoF is a bit shallow.--Godot13 (talk) 00:18, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 15:59, 18 September 2015 (UTC)