Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Aphrophora alni mating.jpg

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Original – Aphrophora alni mating

Support as nominator – PetarM (talk) 15:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Weak support per others. --Tremonist (talk) 13:05, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Bleve we've seen plenty of entomological copulation pix before. Sca (talk) 14:32, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's Sca's fancy way of saying "Bugs doing it". Belle (talk) 16:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:59, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]