Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Laothoe populi mating pair

Laothoe populi mating pair

Original - Mating pair of Laothoe populi moths showing both color varients

Reason

This picture is an excellent detailed picture of the Laothoe populi moth; showing an important event (mating) and is also highly visually striking and unique because it shows both common color varients of the moth. Good composition, with moths centered on frame and taking up an appropriate portion thereof; neutral high contrast background makes features easy to distinguish. Overall a great pic.

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Laothoe populi, mating, moth

Creator

Kateshortforbob

• Support as nominator --Jayron32.talk.contribs 00:51, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
• Support at the res I viewed, image is sharp with good DOF. Slight OOF abdomen of one moth, but still pretty good. --Muhammad(talk) 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
• Support per Muhammad. Durova²⁷³ 04:52, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• Support I'd place it in a higher level moth article. I saw this earlier at the science reference desk. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:48, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Per your suggestion, I also added it to moth. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:16, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Support Interesting shot. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 01:34, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Joined moths.JPG Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)