Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Heliotaurus

Heliotaurus ruficollis

Heliotaurus ruficollis (Coleoptera, Alleculidae). Barrio de Peñagrande, Madrid.

Beetles, although making up 80% of all animal species, are much underfeatured on wikipedia. This is a deft shot of a beetle feeding on and pollinating a flower - very child friendly and educational: many species other than bees pollinate plants! The flower featured is a compound flower (inflorescence); specifically, the inflorescence is a capitulum, and the plant a member of the Asteraceae (old name Compositae) - I'm sure someone here can identify the species, too! So lots of interesting things can be said about the picture.

Nominate and support. - Samsara _contrib ^talk 00:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The beatle itself is too small in the picture, and somewhat blurry. - JPM | 00:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Opppose noisy and weird artifacs. The edges of the petals look completely out of focus. chowells 01:23, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The picture is supposed to focus on the beetle and flower, but when looking at it, one gets distracted.--Ali K 13:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weakly oppose The picture isn't bad, but its easy to think that the picture is about the flower and a pollinator. I would feel better if the picture could be cropped to focus on the beetle more.--Jonthecheet 02:05, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral edges of petals are funky but insect is goodPschemp | ^Talk 07:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
( − ) Oppose A basically good photo, but not that spectacular --Fir0002 07:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Quality of the photo isn't up to par (noise/artifacts), but the beetle looks good. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. That's one very grainy photo. enochlau (talk) 00:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It's the only photo at the Darkling beetle article, but there's too much flower, not enough beetle, also not of "sufficiently high resolution to allow quality reproductions" [1] Zaui 16:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. Flcelloguy (A note?) 16:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 07:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]