Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hairy dragonfly 2

Hairy dragonfly

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Mar 2019 at 08:59:50 (UTC)

Original – Male hairy dragonfly (Brachytron pratense) eating an insect in Estonia

Reason

High quality large image. FP on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Hairy dragonfly

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects

Creator

Charlesjsharp

• Support as nominator – The NMI User (talk) 08:59, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
• Support thanks. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:22, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

• I have put a gallery of images (all FP on Commons) that failed to reach quorum for FP here at the bottom of my User page. Delighted if anyone renominates them! Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:56, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

damaged is not good. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:59, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

• Support as before. This is a renomination, see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hairy dragonfly. MER-C 09:26, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

  Oppose per below. MER-C 19:45, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

• Question - is it normal for these insects to have "buckled" eyes? That was the reason I didn't vote last time... --Janke | Talk 11:19, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
  • @Janke: No it's not normal. This one seems to have suffered some head trauma. Here's what a healthy looking specimen looks like: [1]. Kaldari (talk) 13:45, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
    • agreed. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:25, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

OTOH, it's time we got more pix of life in the Baltics into the TFP box, tõsi? – Sca (talk)

• Oppose - Damaged specimen, also not in natural habitat; posed on human finger. --Janke | Talk 18:15, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:03, 8 March 2019 (UTC)