Behavioral Ecology Course Edits

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Hi all,

I will be editing this page as a student of a behavioral ecology course. I hope you find the incoming information useful! I have added 18 sections and also have edited the overview section. Please feel free to add to the document.

-vkrishnan2

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Vkrishnan2. Peer reviewers: BoozalisHannah, Lily1004, LucasKat.

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Edits

Hello, I am a peer editor for Vkrishan. Overall, I thought that your article was very good, but I did find that it lacked many necessary hyperlinks, so I went ahead and put those in. I also found that some of your wording was a little awkward, or there were inappropriate changes from singular to plural tense, so I changed those to help make readability easier. Overall great job! Let me know if you have any questions Lily1004 (talk) 05:32, 29 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I thought this was a well-written article and an interesting read! You had a lot of great information. I went through and italicized and shortened the scientific name to “O. scapulalis” for reading ease. I also corrected a few spelling and grammar errors and added hyperlinks to relevant articles. In addition, I added clarifying information to the Distribution and Parental care sections from the cited articles in each section. I suggest fixing the titles in the next edit (as I forgot to do it in my edit) – typical Wikipedia format requires all words following the first to be in lowercase. For example, the title Sex Ratio Disorders should be written as Sex ratio disorders. Overall, great job! BoozalisHannah (talk) 23:50, 30 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I am also a peer editor for this article. This article was already very detailed prior to my edits, but I added information from the source “Age-Related Male Reproductive Investment in Courtship Display and Nuptial Gifts in a Moth, Ostrinia scapulalis” to the page under both the “Nuptial gifts” and “Mate searching behavior” sections. I also made general grammatical corrections to the page to increase readability. One suggestion that I have is adding additional content to the "Parasites" subsection, under "Enemies." Overall, great job! LucasKat (talk) 03:21, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vkrishan! Overall, I thought this article was very informative and well-written. I especially like how detailed the mating section is as well as the physiology section. I do have few suggestions that you can consider to make this article better. First, adding photos will be helpful to complement your writing. If you contact authors in Flickr and ask them to give you permission, you might be able to find pictures that you can use. Second, adding information on the species' life-cycle will also be a great addition to your article. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding these suggestions. Otherwise, great job! Sungjaepark (talk) 17:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! I have a few comments as well. I really think that you need a photo. I know it can be challenging to find photos that you can legally put up on wikipedia, but it really weakens your article when you don't have one. I think that you should take out the genetics heading and just make subspecies the heading, as that is more wikipedia standard. Also, sex determining hormones should be its own heading, as it does not really fall under life history and there are no other subsections. Other than those main points, the article is pretty good!Alexandra.payne (talk) 23:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is a really thorough and well-written article, especially in the mating section. However, it could definitely use some life cycle information and pictures, as other have stated above. I also think a brief section on food resources could be useful, as that information is mentioned in your overview but not in the body of the article. Mnoronha456 (talk) 03:56, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]