Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mosquito

A mosquito (Culiseta longiareolata)

Original - A female mosquito of the Culicidae family (Culiseta longiareolata), one of the largest species of mosquitoes, about 10mm body length. Notice the long proboscis, used to suck blood from mammals (including humans), and the compound eyes.

Reason

A high resolution and detailed depiction of a small insect, probably the best available photo of a biting mosquito.

Articles this image appears in

Mosquito, Culiseta

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:03, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
• Reluctant oppose It's quite good, and certainly a valuable image, but the depth of field is a bit low. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Depth of field is an inescapable issue with macro photography (Fir0002's focus bracketing as the exception), and I think Alves has done well to keep as much of the mosquito in focus as he has. Could really only be improved by an action shot of it sucking the blood from an animal. ;-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
• Comment changed a typo in the caption. Mamals --> Mammals.D-rew (talk) 22:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support I thin it's very good, especially considering how close-up it is. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 22:45, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per Shoemaker. Sathmar (talk) 09:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per Shoemaker. Angelono2008 (talk) 09:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support I'm not that picky about DoF. The picture is clear and shows the mosquito in good light, this isn't an art gallery. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 12:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose The bar for bugs is very high and this doesn't quite make it there. Matt Deres (talk) 19:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. I've had bug photo nominees rejected for focal plane issues (see this), and this one isn't even as good -- the out-of-focus foreleg is especially distracting. howcheng {chat} 17:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 08:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)