Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Spider and bee June 2008-1.jpg

Crab Spider with prey

Original - A female Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) capturing a bee (cf. Andrena sp.). Notice the perfect colour match (mimicry) between the spider and the flower. Spiders usually inject the venom at the back of the victim's head, where the nerves are concentrated.

Reason

High quality and detailed action shot illustrating the mimicry capacity of the species.

Articles this image appears in

Misumena vatia

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 09:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support. I know you have a difficult time here with the nature macros, but compositionally this is pretty good. Because both the spider and the bee are the combined focus of the image, the lack of a complete and clear view of either of them individually can be excused. The lighting is a bit flat though, but overall, good job. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 19:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support Nice job --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 16:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support Quite good. Spencer^T♦C 00:41, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Spider and bee June 2008-1.jpg MER-C 07:30, 21 September 2008 (UTC)