Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Schizophyllum commune with Pollenia sp. male

Original - A cluster fly rests upon a Schizophyllum commune (split gill) mushroom growing on a dead birch.

Cropped

Reason: Saw this on Commons FPC and loved it, and it provides images of things we didn't have before now. It combines encyclopaedic merit with artistic merit in a very compelling way. The use of colour is just gorgeous.
Articles this image appears in: Cluster fly (formerly no image), could reasonably be added to Schizophyllum commune, but I didn't feel comfortable replacing the image there myself, even if I think this one is better.
Creator: User:Richard Bartz

Support as nominator Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:13, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Comment. If it's just illustrating the fly (which it is), then the fly is probably too insignificant a part of the picture. If you cropped in you'd probably miss the size requirements, as well as affect composition. ATM this is looking like a good Commons candidate. --jjron (talk) 09:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Support Cropped as nominator - Milk's Favorite Cookie 19:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Oppose - As Jjron and for lack of enc interest. The picture IS the composition -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:18, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Oppose a good shot but not among Wikipedia's best work in terms of depicting the insect (clarity, composition). Support if resting on fungus is an important behaviour (and is documented as so) of the fly - if so it may well be a very good depiction of such behaviour. Guest9999 (talk) 02:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Oppose: This is a good image, certainly, but cannot compare to our other insect FPs as a picture of the insect. I'm with Guest9999: if this image is specifically to illustrate the fly in relation to the fungus, then it may be worth reconsidering. J Milburn (talk) 16:54, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted . --- Milk's Favorite Cookie 00:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)