Talk:Mosquito/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: 20 upper (talk · contribs) 10:28, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

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I'll get to this later today, please feel free to ping if I forget about this nomination. 20 upper (talk) 10:28, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:22, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Prose

• The first sentence is awkward, suggest rephrasing
  • Edited.

• females of some species have in addition adapted to drink blood." Rm "in addition"
  • No, they still drink nectar just as males do.

• The mosquito life cycle consists of egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages. Rephrase to The mosquito life cycle consists of the following stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages.
  • Edited.

• many fish, and birds such as ducks to many fish and bird species No need to include ducks
  • Edited.

• transmit them to later hosts. Later is not the right word here
  • Edited.

• Remove "overview" in Description and life cycle
  • Done.

• Mosquitoes have one pair of wings, with distinct scales on the surface. One is singular and wings is plural
  • One pair...

• Their wings are long and narrow; the legs are long and thin. Doesn't sound right
  • Edited.

• The body, usually grey or black, is slender, typically 3–6 mm long. suggest "and is typically 3–6 mm long
  • Edited.

• At rest, mosquitoes hold their first pair of legs outwards, whereas the somewhat similar Chironomid midges hold these legs forwards. "At rest" to "When at rest"
  • Edited.

• The Anopheles mosquito can fly for up to four hours continuously at 1 to 2 km/h, traveling up to 12 km in a night. Males beat their wings between 450 and 600 times per second, driven indirectly by muscles which vibrate the thorax. Suggest dropping "The" and "mosquito", and convert these units
  • Edited and converted.

• Females can live for up to three weeks in nature, depending on temperature, humidity, their ability to obtain a blood meal, and avoiding being killed by their vertebrate hosts. "In nature" to "in the wild"
  • Done.

• other surfaces near water; their eggs hatch only when flooded. Do their eggs flood?
  • Edited.

• Females in genera such as Culex, Culiseta, and Uranotaenia lay their eggs in floating rafts. Mansonia females lay their eggs in arrays, attached usually to the under-surfaces of waterlily pads. Rephrase to Culex, Culiseta, and Uranotaenia females lay their eggs in floating rafts, while  Mansonia females lay their eggs in arrays, attached usually to the under-surfaces of waterlily pads.
  • Edited.

• It swims either by propelling itself with its mouth brushes, or by jerkily wriggling its body. Drop itself
  • No, the word is necessary here, or "propelling", a transitive verb, has no object.

• with the abdomen curving around underneath. Needs better word choice
  • Edited.

• They do not feed; typically they pass their time hanging from the surface of the water by their respiratory trumpets. Drop typical
  • Edited.

• Loss of blood from many bites can add up to a large volume. Another look for clarification.
  • It's correct as it stands.

• Malaria-transmitting mosquitoes seek out caterpillars and feed on their haemolymph, causing harm. What type of harm?
  • Described.

• The semiochemical that most powerfully attracts Culex quinquefasciatus is nonanal. "Most powerfully attracts" is not the right word choice
  • Edited.

• This keeps the blood separate from anything else in the stomach. to This separates the blood from anything else in the stomach.
  • No, it keeps it separate (from the start); there isn't mixing followed by separation.

• Like many Hemiptera that survive on dilute liquid diets, many adult mosquitoes excrete surplus liquid even as they feed. "As they feed" to "Even when feeding"
  • Edited.

• Ecology and distribution aren't necessarily the same thing, so I suggest renaming to "Ecology and distribution"
  • Done.

• Its weather is unpredictable, freezing but often warming suddenly in mid-winter, making mosquitoes emerge from pupae in diapause, and then freezing again before they can complete their life cycle. Suggest "allowing mosquitoes to emerge"
  • Not really, one could say it tricks or forces them to emerge, with unfortunate consequences.

• Mosquito-borne diseases are currently most prevalent in East Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and India. What do you mean by current? This will eventually become outdated
  • Edited.

• Don't some mammals and frogs consume adult mosquitoes?
  • Edited. We aren't trying to make a comprehensive list, even if that were possible.

• The oldest known mosquitoes are currently those of Libanoculex intermedius found in Lebanese amber, dating to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, around 125 million years ago. Again, what does current mean here? Suggest removing "currently those of"
  • Done.

• Three other species of Cretaceous mosquito are currently known. When is this? In 2050, it may increase to 20
  • Removed.

• P. burmanicus can be definitively assigned to the Anophelinae Why the use of "definitely"
  • Edited.

• The lead says 3,600 species but the Taxonomy section says 3,500.
  • Fixed.

• What's happening in the "control" section
  • It seems to be in order.

• Control of disease-carrying mosquitoes may one day become possible using gene drives. When is this? This may become outdated.
  • Edited.

• Pyrethrum (from Chrysanthemum species, particularly C. cinerariifolium and C. coccineum) has been reviewed favorably in research published in 2021. Clarity on favorably.
  • Reworded.

• We need more information on bites
  • Not sure why we'd need that: this is a biology article on a fly taxon, not a first-aid manual.

• How large are mosquitoes? Please provide the measurements.
  • Added under 'Adult'.

Sources

• American Mosquito Control Association (cite 5) has a bare URL
  • Fixed.

• Lehane 2005 (cite 26) is page 151 to ?
  • Fixed.

• Mullen 2009 (cite 57) needs page numbers
  • Replaced ref.
    • Not completely done, it's still used as cite 61, thus is still in need of page numbers.
      • Removed that one.

• Theobald 1901 (cite 88) needs page numbers
  • Fixed.

• "Jaeger, Edmund C. (1959). A Source-Book of Biological Names and Terms. Springfield, Ill: Thomas. ISBN 978-0-398-06179-1." The title link is to Biology
  • Fixed.

Images

• All good.
  • Noted.

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