Talk:Chrysolina hyperici

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Chrysolina hyperici

Chrysolina hyperici leads to Chrysolina which contains a link to Chrysolina hyperici ... = I suggest to delete Chrysolina hyperici therefore, ok? --Kai.pedia (talk) 15:32, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This redirect is worse than useless. It misleads the reader into thinking that the article exists, although it isn't so. It should be deleted!!! --Polinizador (talk) 14:47, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! By creating the species page. --Polinizador (talk) 15:34, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Taxonomy

Hallo @Monster Iestyn, I put in the information I found at GBIF Chrysolina hyperici (Forster, 1771) in the section "Name usages applied to occurrences in GBIF". Not an insect expert (I usually only edit plants, I understand those sources better, I got sidetracked here when I was working on Hypericum perforatum), so I may have misunderstood what was going on there. Edit it out if I got it wrong. Be bold in editing and all that. MtBotany (talk) 19:33, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MtBotany: Ah, thank you for explaining, I'll correct that in a bit. I'm not actually an insect expert either, but I do know Chrysolina is usually divided up into loads of subgenera, Hypericia being one of them.

Also, while we're here, I just wanted to make sure, you did know the Cornell source is mainly for the related species Chrysolina quadrigemina, right? (Hopefully I'm worrying about nothing and you realised the information there applied to C. hyperici too or something, I just wasn't sure.) Monster Iestyn (talk) 19:41, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, I was foolish and go confused between two sources. I cannot even figure out where I got lost there. ick. Hate that I did that. MtBotany (talk) 19:50, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Monster Iestyn Figured out where I went wrong and going to fix a link there on Weed. I'm also going to revert to your edit before I started making a mess and add back in just the information from GBIF and the Concise Guide to Insects. Let me know if you'd rather edit out my mistake in some other way. MtBotany (talk) 20:23, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MtBotany: No worries, it happens! Nah I'm good, I'll let you revert first, and I'll reapply my tweaks to the taxobox afterwards. Monster Iestyn (talk) 20:28, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Monster Iestyn Done! I will come back to this later since now it is relying on one source too much for information about the lifecycle. I also moved the Cornell information over to Chrysolina quadrigemina, because why waste that writing. Though now I need to mess about there as well as here. Ack! I'm only supposed to edit plants! I don't know, nuffing about all these fast moving things that won't hold still long enough for me to key them out. ;) - MtBotany (talk) 20:39, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MtBotany: Haha XD I'll see if I can expand/correct the prose for the taxonomy section too in that case. Monster Iestyn (talk) 20:48, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good news, @Monster Iestyn I found a pretty good source for lifecycle of both beetles Biology and biological control of common St. Johnswort on Archive.org. It differs from the book I found, but as it is a more scientific source than Concise Guide to Insects I'm more inclined to follow this source. I'll get to updating when I have time, probably on Tuesday. If you don't get there first. MtBotany (talk) 23:46, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MtBotany That's good to hear! Though to be honest, I'm not actually that good at summarising information from a source in my own words, so maybe I'll leave the updating to you. Monster Iestyn (talk) 23:58, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Monster Iestyn No problem. My strategy is to read a source then go write somewhat later and my brain will usually automatically gives it my own voice. (For better or worse.) Though I check back to make sure I did not inadvertently plagiarize the source.

And a note to myself found a book to borrow Biology of Leaf Beetles with nuggets of info on pages 55,123,124. Apparently the species is a fairly able flier in comparison to many other beetles in the genus. MtBotany (talk) 00:20, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]