Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mite mass

Mites massing

Mass of unidentified plant mites (initially feeding on Solanum americanum) massing on a nearby log for reproduction.

Nice colorful image of Mites reproducing. It's hi-res, encyclopedic, and interesting.

• Nominate and support. - larsinio (poke)^(prod) 21:24, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support Certainly is interesting, it looks like an orange blob until you zoom in and see their all bugs -- BWF89 22:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support Makes me itch...I like this picture because of the high resolution and overall "look", as well as the color and the fact that it grabs my attention. However, is there any chance at all of identifying the species, or are they all pretty much the same? That would put it into the "encyclopaedic" category even more so and I think we'd have ourselves a FP. And also, I notice a glitch of some kind in the photo, about two thirds of the way down on the right. I'm not sure what that is, but at full resolution it's easy to see and definitely distracting. That could possibly be edited out, or the original image could be uploaded again (if the line was a result of an information transfer error) to fix the problem. (Of course, this could just be my computer; I'm not sure) --Tewy 05:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose: Lack of identified species. Image doesn't clearly identify what it depicts (i.e. mites massing for reproduction), though I can't quite say how one would go about visually demonstrating that. A nice novelty perhaps, and interestingly encyclopedic, but not FP to me. –ArmadniGeneral (talk • contribs) 06:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose - how can "mass of unidentified mites" be encyclopaedic? Eh? :) It's really not sharp enough though - the top left quarter of the image is a blurred mess, and I can't work out what's happening in the bottom right - are the mights falling through the air? Is that water in the air? The bottom left is also very out of focus. FPs should be exceptionally clear, which this isn't. :/ Stevage 09:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support - Iolakana|^(talk) 19:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose per all oppose votes. Anonymous__Anonymous 21:47, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support per Tewy --Childzy ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:54, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Not promoted . Quite close though. Raven4x4x 07:27, 1 July 2006 (UTC)