Talk:Small tortoiseshell

Small tortoiseshell was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (November 7, 2013). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Scientific name

The genus part of the scientific name should be Aglais. The species is actually Aglais urticae. Ebudae 02:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

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California Tortoiseshell

I have the picture of a california tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica). Where would that image go?

Hi - I've created an article for the butterfly - California tortoiseshell. Upload you image to wikipedia (see Special:Upload) and then edit the article to place the image in the taxobox. If you know anything about the butterfly, you can type that in too! Cheers, --AjAldous 30 June 2005 11:47 (UTC)

New Edits

Hello, I am currently a junior at Washington University in St. Louis. I have been editing this wikipedia page for my class. I have increased this page a great deal by adding information mainly about behavior.

I read through the behavior section and fixed some grammatical errors, and added a hyperlink. I also moved part of the Biology section up to Description and saw that most of the Biology information was already covered under Predation. Overall, good info! Wmhua (talk) 16:56, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I focused on making this article more concise and grammatically correct by deleting repetitive portions and combining redundant yet relevant sentences. I also rearranged some of the sentences in the Hibernation section to make the information flow better. kzyoung (talk) 01:19, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey npatel, good work on the article so far. There's a few things that I would recommend though. Perhaps include a brief introductory paragraph in the beginning to summarize the article? Also, if you're working towards Good Article status you may need additional sections like Taxonomy, as well as some more descriptions of how to identify the adult/larvae. I found the headers, and the order that they were used to be a bit confusing. How about putting Territory Defense under Life Cycle, and changing the headers related to Life Cycle (Hibernation, Hatching, Migration, etc.) to sub-headers of Life Cycle instead of the double dash headers. This would make a bit more logical sense, and would probably balance out the page better. One last thing, you may want to include a reference on the drought section, I hear the good article reviewers are nitpicky like that. Jabes808 (talk) 23:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I like the scope of this article; it covers a wide variety of topics, but I think the organization could be improved a bit. I changed the names of a few sections and ordered them a bit differently to try to make the overall flow of the article a bit more smooth. Maximilianzhang (talk) 02:56, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The inclusion of the pictures within "Developmental stages" was very helpful to visualizing the butterfly's life cycle. I do think the article could benefit from a "Taxonomy" section which could give a description on the name's origin, who first discovered the species, and alternate names. Also, a simpler improvement would be adding the citation mentioned in the GA Review from 2013 that has yet to be fixed. Catejiang (talk) 04:35, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Small Tortoiseshell/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Khazar2 (talk · contribs) 20:39, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for these nominations; we seem to be suddenly bombarded with butterflies (which is a good thing!). I'm concerned that this one is a bit premature, though. First, the article appears to have no lead section, which is a requirement per WP:LEAD and the GA criteria. Second, it has a two-year-old cleanup banner for needing citations that hasn't been removed and doesn't seem to have been addressed. At least one section makes statements that seem to need citation ("Scientific evidence shows", "This butterfly may then be sensitive to global warming", etc.); I don't see any citations for that subsection at all.

Because of these issues, I'm closing this review and not listing for GA at this time. But please feel free to renominate as soon as these issues have been addressed. Thanks, and good luck, Khazar2 (talk) 20:39, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Range and food plant range

I can't help noticing that the range of the butterfly shown in the map in the article extends considerably further East in Asia than the range of Urtica dioica, the supposed food plant. Presumably the eastern populations eat other species of food plant. Plantsurfer 00:06, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article is well written. It contains enough detail without being overwhelming or extraneous. It is graded a C and low ranking of importance. The majority of the article is behavioral hibernation information, and although this is well written, the article needs to be expanded to include more general information on the butterfly. Once this is completed, I think that the grade will increase. I had previously learned that most butterflies are not territorial, so I was surprised to learn that the small Tortoiseshell butterfly males are territorial. I thought it was extremely interesting that they guard their territory for up to 90 minutes, and then the next day they find a new territory to defend. In addition to adding more general information to this article, I think it would be beneficial to add a section on how the males select which territories to defend, as well as how females choose where to lay their eggs, as these are only briefly mentioned. Additionally, I think that this article could use a section on any larvae or young caterpillar behavior, as the beginning of their life cycle is only mentioned in terms of hatching. I think this could be expanded and perhaps separated into a new category. mlopez2121 —Preceding undated comment added 02:12, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File:Aglais urticae LC0310.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that Aglais urticae LC0310.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on January 28, 2016. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2016-01-28. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:53, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the day

The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae L.) is a colourful Eurasian butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is the National Butterfly of Denmark.Photograph: Jörg Hempel

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"the tortoiseshell butterfly will fly away in a straight line in order to outrun the predator.[13]" I have changed outrun to outstrip as this has a generic connotation. AnnaComnemna (talk) 16:54, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]