Talk:Culex pipiens

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2019 and 4 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Lelandra. Peer reviewers: Hannahwhite97, Y.shiuan, Olivia.urso.

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Trivia

Mosquitoes of this kind are also found in Italy (See here) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.60.32.216 (talk) 19:57, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, and about everywhere in the world. Naming a bunch of countries is rather silly. Jalwikip (talk) 09:26, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Indeed. Other countries are most likely missing in this list, such as Belgium (surrounded by listed countries). --Jacques de Selliers (talk) 10:46, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Peer review

Hi Lelandra! I thought your article was very informative and well-written! I made some slight phrasing changes, to make sure it was clearer. Notably, I reworded your lead section.

For the food procurement subsection, you mentioned the many stages that encompass the feeding activity. I suggest you give more information on what each stage entails.

For the disease vectors section, you have a photo to accompany the section. I suggest you put a more descriptive caption of that photo, that way viewers know what it’s specifically about.

For the global impact section, the “arbovirus diseases” subsection did not have any text. So I took it out, as I see it to be in the disease vectors section anyways – this was probably just a small error.

andrewoh29 (talk) 14:58, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Peer review

The main edit that I made to this page was shortening the introduction/overview section. It had multiple shorts paragraphs in it, so I moved these to other sections where they fit better. I also made some grammatical edits and some changes to sentence formating to make it more clear and concise. I changed the names of some of the sections to better reflect the content of each section. I recommend removing the quoted information and instead paraphrasing the information.Hannahwhite97 (talk) 23:36, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

I moved a section from the overview to the Mating section where I thought it would fit better. I also combined reproductive and mating behavior into just Mating since they’re really similar. I then shifted subsections within to make the information connect better. within Added some words to provide better flow in global impact section. I changed title of Eating Behavior to Food Resources and Behavior, and flipped order description and distribution, to better fit the class Diptera project format. Y.shiuan (talk) 22:54, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

This was an excellent article and very well put together! The main edits I made involved the Distribution Section, as it contained an unnecessarily long list of countries the species was found in; I changed it to just be a list of continents. Additionally, I changed a few sentences to improve clarity and conciseness. I think the article could greatly benefit from elaboration of some of the topics mentioned in the mating section, specifically about swarming behavior and also about disease prevalence. Olivia.urso (talk) 00:25, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

This entry is very detailed and very explanatory. It encapsulates numerous aspects of this fly species to a great extent. The main edits I made were organizational, since the ideas of the article were well executed. I moved a sentence from the overview to the Distribution section and also moved a subsection from the Mating section to the Habitat section. I think these readjustments really help the cohesiveness and organization of the piece. Besides that, I made minor grammatical changes. Great work. Eengermann (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:03, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

This article is very informative and does a great job separating the important information into well-defined subsections. I made a few edits on sentence structure and grammar in order to help the flow of the sentences. The organization, content and structure of the article were all fantastic. Going forward, expansion to the global impact section would be useful, as mosquitoes are well known to cause the death of countless people by acting as vectors. Great job! JustinLevin (talk) 03:45, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

I added the List of Culex Species page to this article in the See also section and also linked it in from the Filariasis page. Very well-researched article overall! XuLily (talk) 11:19, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Factual concern: Prevalence in North America

In the introduction, the article seems to be saying that C. pipiens is the only mosquito present north of the 39th parallel in North America (whereas C. quinquefasciatus is the only mosquito present south of the 36th parallel in the U.S.). The full version of the paper cited as a source is not publicly accessible, but the summary indicates that this conclusion is meant to be comparative between these two species only (i.e. C. quinquefasciatus is not found north of the 39th and C. pipiens is not found south of the 36th) rather than absolute as the article implies. This also makes me wonder whether the article's claim about C. pipiens being the most prevalent mosquito species in North America (which also seems based on the same source) is accurate. I don't have access to the full version of the paper that was cited and I'm not sure whether both claims are incorrect or not, so in lieu of editing the article directly, I'm hoping someone else with more knowledge (or access to The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) will be able to resolve this. 2600:4040:7A20:5400:382F:7635:46DC:2B15 (talk) 21:03, 29 August 2023 (UTC)