Talk:Marsh fritillary

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More info needed on European and especially East Palaearctic populations. Habitats flight dates, status etc.Notafly (talk) 20:20, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Peer review

Hi, I peer-reviewed this article for Behavioral Ecology. Overall, it's interesting and cool to read, and I learned many new things! The main changes that I made were noting some areas that could use citation, and I also added some internal links to other Wikipedia pages that would help explain some topics that you mention but do not define. I also changed up the phrasing a little bit in just a couple sections so that it was a bit clearer to understand and easier to follow. Lauraem7 (talk) 09:11, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Section headings

@Uhm.s:Just a note that on Wikipedia the standard way of writing section headings is in sentence case. That is, the first word is capitalized and subsequent words are not capitalized unless they include a proper noun. That's explained at MOS:HEADINGS in our Manual of Style. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 04:06, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peer reviews for behavior ecology class

Great job on this article! There is a lot of detailed information over a wide variety of topics, and it was fun to read! I think there is a good use of hyperlinks and citations within the page. However, the introduction section should have a few citations within it. I think it would be interesting to expand on the adult feeding section. It is mentioned that they feed “opportunistically” so it could be beneficial to discuss how much they eat or why they only eat opportunistically. The following sentence is in the habitat section: Small populations can be an important element of the ecology because they produce many mobile individuals which can then found other populations. It is not clear why this description is important, so it might make more sense if additional information was added.

The only thing I moved was the pictures in the life cycle section. The pictures are great, but I thought it would be more informative to have them next to the section that was describing it. Therefore, I moved the picture for pupa, caterpillar, and eggs to be adjacent to their text. Additionally, I moved the pictures showing adult mating and courting to the mating section. I thought the pictures described the mating text better than the life cycle text. If you do not agree with these changes, I am more than willing to talk about it more with you! CR.Tracy (talk) 15:20, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think this article could definitely be nominated for Good Article status. The only thing I noticed was that there a lot of subsections with limited information. Synthesizing and combining these subsections might make the article easier to follow for a reader. Engelde (talk) 19:36, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

Hi, I am peer-reviewing this article for Behavioral Ecology as well. I thought this article went into a lot of depth in certain topics such as the habitat and its importance in conservation, and gave an informative overview of the butterfly!

I moved the Description section to be below Taxonomy and above Distribution, as I think the article flows better with that organization, particularly since in Habitat you mention the importance of food resources in optimal habitats, and the section after that now is Food Resources. I moved around some citations from sentences that had no information from the articles cited to those that were relevant to the citation. I also added some citations to sentences that needed them. I made some small grammar fixes as well.

I think that more information about mating would be helpful, particularly since one of the images used describes courting in its caption, but no information is provided and I couldn't find anything beyond what was already in the article. Jerryshen (talk) 21:18, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The marsh fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia) is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in the Palearctic region. Females are larger and less vibrant in color than males. Due to their short lifespan, females mate soon after they emerge from the chrysalis. They bear so many eggs that they crawl to nearby vegetation to start laying them, being unable to fly far until they are less burdened. These two marsh fritillaries were photographed in Dorset, England, while mating; the male is on the left of the image and the female on the right.

Photograph credit: Charles James Sharp

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