Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Queen bee

Queen bee

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Aug 2019 at 19:25:14 (UTC)

Original – Queen bee (marked) and workers of the Africanised honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata

Reason: Good quality, high EV, marvellous composition
Articles in which this image appears: Queen bee, Animal identification, Gyne, Invasive species in the United States
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Support as nominator – Tomer T (talk) 19:25, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm somewhat unsure about the marking. It's otherwise very good. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 20:27, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – EV. I am Ok with the marking, for encyclopedic use. Focus looks a bit off on top-left corner, but that's because a couple of bees are climbing on top of others!! The composition makes up for it. Bammesk (talk) 02:25, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 18:06, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. DreamSparrow ^Chat 04:40, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I like the marking; what it takes away from in-the-wild authenticity, it adds back in viewer ease of picking out the queen given the description in the caption. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:26, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Marking misleads. Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:01, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'm also unsure about the marking. Is this standard practice in apiaries or entomological research? (I should know this, but I don't.) Josh Milburn (talk) 19:01, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Yes, marking queen bees is standard practice in beekeeping, at least over here in Germany. I happen to know a club of beekeepers and they have shown me queen bees they had purchased from breeders and which are always marked. The chosen form of marking for each group of species is nicely presented in the article Animal identification enlisted above. Someone could surely provide an second image with an unmarked queen bee, but, however, this image displaying a marked queen bee accompanied by a throng of worker bees AND all in nigh-perfect focus well illustrates the central theme "marked queen bee" and is certainly worthy of featured picture status. Maybe the title should be extended accordingly. Caveat: My mainstay is at Wiki commons thus I regrettably cannot vote for support here, lacking the required number of wikipedia edits. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 14:11, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Useful comments. If the file title is changed, I would withdraw my oppose. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:05, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot think of a qualifying justification for a rename at Commons. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 23:35, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support – I have read the discussion above and I am now convinced. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 23:35, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Apis mellifera scutellata 1355021.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:02, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]