Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Varroa destructor on honeybee host.jpg

Honeybee mite

Varroa destructor, a type of mite, is seen parasitizing a honeybee host in this image taken by a low-temperature scanning electron microscope.

Reason

High detail, highly encyclopedic image of a parasite capabile of destroying entire honeybee colonies; this image shows the mite in action.

Proposed caption

Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LTSEM) image of Varroa destructor on a honey bee host

Articles this image appears in

Varroa destructor

Creator

USDA ARS EMU

• Support as nominator (I didn't even see the honey bee nom lower down) BRIAN0918 15:14, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support, Sick. ^8thstar 16:11, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support Not much action going on here though - as they are probably dehydrated and coated in metal. Debivort 16:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support Excellent--Southern Texas 16:44, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support. Not entirely sure how to interpret what I'm looking at: is the mite basically a bug that has a shell on "top" and legs "underneath"? If so, perhaps inverting the image might make it more intuitive. Spikebrennan 17:31, 23 July 2007 (UTC) Preference for edit the 180 degree rotation version

edit - simply inverted -- Withdrawn

edit 2 - rotated 180° -- Withdrawn

• Support edit 2 - I also think it's better inverted, since the subject is the mite, not the bee. I often feel uncomfortable with false coloring like this, but the detail on this critter is too much to pass up. --TotoBaggins 17:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  • I think it would be better if you just rotated it 180, rather than mirroring reality. There may be some minute features that only an expert would notice are in the wrong positions due to the invert. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-07-23 23:08Z
    • This is a good point, which I only considered after I'd posted the current one. I've posted a rotated one now. --TotoBaggins 14:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support edit - good quality and informative.--Svetovid 19:11, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support edit. Super detail ~ Veledan • Talk 22:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support edit - Excellent picture, very high quality and rich in details. Where can I get an LTSEM?! ;). Luca 07:08, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support any - I'd prefer a 180° rotation, as per Brian. Adam Cuerden ^talk 11:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
  • I've uploaded the rotated version over the original. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-07-25 13:58Z
• Conditional Support Either - I think the caption needs to be redone. But the image is really cool. Zakolantern 17:10, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support any A fantastic picture compared with a normal macro photo . I should have bought a SEM! --wau > 22:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment With a slight crop so that the bug's butt is in the bottom left hand corner of the image, I *might* support the image you just linked to; it's really really cool. Zakolantern 22:20, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - I have withdrawn the inverted image from consideration, since it was incorrect, and withdrawn my rotated image, since Brian0918 did the same thing with the original; votes for the edit actually refer to the only image now present in this nom. I have also reworked the caption. This image is really growing on me (zing!). --TotoBaggins 14:18, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Varroa destructor on honeybee host.jpg MER-C 03:39, 29 July 2007 (UTC)