Talk:Peridroma saucia

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Behavioral Ecology - WikiProject

Hello! I added the following sections to this article: Geographic range, Food resources, Parental care, Life cycle (egg, larva, pupa, and adult), Migration, Enemies, Mating, Pest of crop plants, and Pest control. I also added 7 new references and various citations throughout the article. Lastly, I re-did the overview section in order to properly summarize and encompass all the important aspects of this article. Thanks!Pranita.kaginele (talk) 02:47, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

Hi! I thought that this was a great article - it was quite informative about the cutworm's status as a pest, the crops that it targets, and the methods of control. I added some citations to the overview, since it contained information from throughout the rest of the article and from multiple references. I edited some of your references to fix a DOI and add some more information about authors, dates, volume and other aspects of them. I also added some more information about oviposition and migration to those sections from one of the references. I added an image of the dorsal view of the adult male moth since you had a ventral view of the adult as well. I also made some grammatical changes throughout the article.

I think that the list of crops and parasites could be condensed a little better, as right now they're both mainly lists of species. Additionally, a few things confuse me and I think they could be clarified; what exactly are the "forms" that have different colors - subspecies? They're listed in the synonyms but it's not clear what exactly they are. For the migration section, you talk about warmer and colder months, but which areas do they apply to? I also think that pictures of other life cycle stages would be helpful, but I looked around and could not find any. jerryshen (talk) 19:46, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, great article! I made some minor edits to help improve the article. I moved the photo of the larva to the Larva subsection because it was under the Egg section previously. I also added a photo of the ragweed for some more variety in photos, but feel free to remove it if you feel it doesn’t contribute. Under Enemies, I started a new section on parasitism, found a decent source, and added information. I created two subsections under Food resources to help with clarity: Common plants and Weeds. I also agree with jerryshen that it would be nice to somehow summarize the food resources another way. I don’t have a concrete solution so I edited (in source editor) the bulleted list into two columns to at least help the length of the list. However, one suggestion I have is that you could possibly create smaller lists within the Common plants, such as “Fruits,” “Vegetables,” “Grasses,” etc. J.j.lee (talk) 03:27, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I made some minor changes throughout the article. I fixed typos and changed "degrees Celsius" to "°C" just to be more concise. I also found a nice diagram of the life cycle that included some other stages that were not illustrated before. For the "Larva" section, the paragraph right now is very dense with data, so I think it would be beneficial to find some way to present the lengths in each instar more clearly, such as using bullet points. J.j.lee (talk) 18:09, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Great work on this article! The content is very thorough and covers a wide variety of important topics. I made a few small grammatical edits and added a couple internal links. I also broke the migration section into two separate subsections to add more clarity. A couple suggestions I have for you are to add more detail to the brief discussion of larval "army-worm" behavior --it seems very interesting, but does not go into much depth. Similarly, I think the mating section could use more detail about the role of the female pheromone in mating. Finally, there are a number of places where many species are listed. I think in these cases, it would add clarity and structure to put them into a list format instead of in a chunk of text. Thanks! Hanna peterman (talk) 22:32, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]