Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Spider and mites May 2008-1.jpg

Goldenrod Crab Spider

 * Reason:High quality and detailed depiction of the species, clearly showing the camouflage capacity. The mites walking over the motionless spider add a grain of salt to the picture and emphasize the theme.
 * Articles this image appears in:Misumena vatia, Animal colouration
 * Creator:Joaquim Alves Gaspar


 * Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:37, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Intothewoods29 (talk) 16:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * weak support A nice picture that shows nymphs, but the dandelion seed killed it and the photo could use some brightening. unsigned entry by ZooFari 02:45, 13 September 2008
 * Oppose Flat lighting and poorly composed - mites and dandelion seed distract from the spider --Abdominator (talk) 04:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

(bzzzzt!) MER-C 11:10, 25 September 2008 (UTC)