Talk:Galerita lecontei

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Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2024

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 25 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Amandayu19 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Amandayu19 (talk) 00:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Article Review

This is a good article overall! I enjoyed the thorough discussion of the beetle’s defense mechansim against predators. One observation I made was that the article initially lacked an image of the beetle in the taxonomic info box, so I added one from Wikipedia Commons.

While reading the section on “Defensive Protection,” I noticed that it mentions ants as a common food for the bombardier beetle, yet there is a dedicated sub-section discussing how the beetle uses its defensive glands against ants. It might be helpful to add a sentence or two clarifying why the spray is specifically targeted at ants, or broaden the section to include other species of insects as well.

I also contributed by adding citations for the “Habitat” of the beetle and for the “Anatomy of the Gland.” However, the section on the “Discharge of the Spray” lacks an in-line citation, and there are several sentences in the “Content of the Fluid” that are not properly cited. If all this information is from the same source, consider placing an in-line citation in the middle of the paragraph and re-emphasizing it at the end of the section to clarify the source of the information. JacksonPanWashU (talk) 02:37, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Added to the lead section to give a more comprehensive overview of the species, highlighting unique features such as its elytra which grant it protection and chemical emission used as a predator defense mechanism; edited the habitat/home range section by adding additional information about where they reside and geographic places they prefer such as moist, hidden environments and included more information about its defense protection mechanism, namely their abdominal glands that contain a specialized chemical chamber with the ability to rotate the tip to give it more tactical advantage [User:M.l.xu] — Preceding unsigned comment added by M.l.xu (talk • contribs) 16:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

I had enjoyed reading about this beetle! I had made slight changes where I hyperlinked certain words, changed the order of two paragraphs, and fixed certain grammatical errors to help make the article flow more clearly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by E.kidest (talk • contribs) 04:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Some Changes Made

In the Galerita lecontei article, the lead section states the names of several beetle families which are Carabidae, Dytiscidae, and Gyrinidae. For each of these names, there should be links attached to them to allow the readers to better understand the families instead of reading past them. So, I added the links to these words. The article does not link several words to wiki articles that describe the words.

For instance, although Sialkot is described in the article, it is difficult to imagine how it looks like without a linked article to the word ‘Sialkot.’ So, I linked a wiki article to ‘Sialkot.’ Similarly, I linked a wiki article to ‘femoral’, ‘tibiae,’ ‘prothorax’, ‘thorax’, ‘pupua’, ‘abdominal’, ‘formic acid’, ‘acetic acid’, ‘lipophilic’, ‘hydrocarbons’, ‘esters’, etc. Since there were so many unlinked words that should have been linked, it was difficult to understand the behavioral and ecological context of the beetles. After linking articles to these words, it becomes easier to understand the context. JKatieWiki8Feb (talk) 06:56, 26 March 2024 (UTC)