Talk:Telephone-pole beetle

Minor Edits

Minor edits were made to the article, such as adding a few links and minor grammatical changes. Overall though, not many changes were necessary for this article. Luisss79 (talk) 22:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Spelling

The correct spelling of the species is "debilis". 71.96.74.116 06:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. --Stemonitis 11:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

This species has one of the most unusual life cycles known in metazoans, a better (and accurate) description with references would be nice.

Overall Article Feedback

Overall great start to this article! I'm leaving some feedback below.

A strength of this entry is the section describing the life cycle. This section includes a visual diagram of the telephone-pole beetle’s life cycle, which helps readers to better understand its complicated structure. The article is well-organized and easy to follow. Three categories that could be included are enemies, social behavior, food resources. Although the article mentions that the adults are infected by the Wolbachia bacteria, I believe a section on this enemy and other enemies would allow for a better understanding of how this species interacts with others. Because the species has a sex bias, a social behavior section could help explain the implications of this bias and how males and females interact with each other. It is mentioned that the larvae feed on chestnut and oak logs, so I think a food resource section would be beneficial to explain why they utilize this particular resource and if the adults use other food resources. Angelina2024 (talk) 23:39, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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): MichelleLi455 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Connectscience0224 (talk) 21:09, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Summary of Changes

I added 5 sections, Overview, Morphology, Life Cycle, Mating Behavior, and Wood Pests. In the morphology section, I described in detail the larval morphology at several stages and pointed out a unique trait to M. debilis - that the first instar has legs but second and older instars do not. In the life cycle section, I described in detail the female-producing paedogenetic life cycle and made sure to distinguish that from the male-producing paedogenetic life cycle, and the male life cycle. In the mating behavior section, I discussed a study that resurrected mating behavior in M. debilis, that is very rarely seen in nature because adults are rare and sterile. In the wood pests section, I describe how M. debilis is sometimes a pest to the timber industry and wooden buildings. The overview section briefly summarizes the previous points. MichelleLi455 (talk) 05:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by AirshipJungleman29 talk 03:08, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that adult telephone-pole beetles are unable to copulate, and adult females do not have the physiological mechanisms to reproduce because they are unable to lay eggs or produce live progeny? Source: Perotti, M. Alejandra; Young, Daniel K.; Braig, Henk R. (June 2016). "The ghost sex-life of the paedogenetic beetle Micromalthus debilis". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 27364. Bibcode:2016NatSR...627364P. doi:10.1038/srep27364
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5x expanded by MichelleLi455 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Telephone-pole beetle; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Hello MichelleLi455, and thank you for a great article! You have made some excellent improvements to Telephone-pole beetle, but unfortunately it is not eligible for a Did You Know nomination. DYK is meant for brand new content, and while the article has seen massive improvement, it has not been expanded by 5x in size since you started editing last week (4214 bytes to 12000 bytes, about a 3x expansion). However, I think you can go one better than DYK. With just a little more work, I think this has the potential to pass a peer review and become a Good Article, at which point it would be recognized as some of the best content on Wikipedia (and could also be re-nominated for DYK!) If you are interested in that, please let me know and I would be happy to help you through the process. Fritzmann (message me) 18:30, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Revisions

I changed some of the names/organization of headings and subheadings, especially in the Life Cycle section which I felt could have been further divided. I also cleaned up some grammar and syntax mistakes I noticed and added citations where I noticed sources were referenced but not explicitly included. I also removed some information that was not supported by any sources I could find. Hipper2305 (talk) 21:32, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Minor organization edits and suggestions

This was an extremely well-written article with thorough information and flow! The organization was very good, but I made some minor edits. I deleted the Wood Pests section under Feeding, as there was another section towards the end that was copy and pasted. I also moved the Distribution section to the top of the article, as the geographic range/where the beetle might be found is generally next to the overview/summary. I made some very minor grammatical edits and added a citation to the Wood Pests section. I also think it would be helpful to add a subsection under Wood pests, detailing some control methods to prevent or manage infestations. Alexiathia (talk) 03:55, 22 March 2024 (UTC)