Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Field Bindweed flower with velvet mites

Field Bindweed flower with velvet mites

 * Reason:Unusual and beatiful picture of velvet mites on a flower, adding enc value to the articles
 * Articles this image appears in:Acariformes, Convolvulus arvensis
 * Creator:Joaquim Alves Gaspar


 * Support as nominator &mdash; Alvesgaspar 11:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - What's the other little critter in there? --TotoBaggins 14:35, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - A beetle for sure, but I can't identify it. - Alvesgaspar 14:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Ruefully oppose - I really want to support this, since it's just so enc. and fascinating and such a lovely picture, but the poor focus and lack of detail on the mites is a showstopper for me. :( --TotoBaggins 18:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * What's blurry, TotoBaggins? I don't think I'd be able to see more detail on the mites in real life than I see in this image, so I don't mind the lack of detail. Enuja 01:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Support I really wish the two articles had more information in them, and that this image contributed more centrally to them, but I do think this image does have real informational content.  Maybe this candidacy will convince one of us to expand those articles!    If I knew what the mites were doing on the flower, I would add this image to the relevant page(s).  Oh well.  I still think it's a beautiful image, good technical quality, with a lot of informational content.  Enuja 01:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Mild oppose. I can almost see this having a place in an article about pesticides, or organic farming, or parasitism/commensalism. Samsara (talk • contribs) 13:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 09:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)