Talk:Agelena consociata

M.s.w.lee (talk) 16:49, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I learned that Agelena consociata is a highly social spider. I thought their willingness to accept unrelated members of the same species into colonies was impressive. The article had well written information and neutral prose. It explains Agelena consociata behavior within colonies, benefits of group-living, the process of parental care, and hunting well. Explaining how parents feed others' offspring provides a lot of context to these spiders' group dynamic. While reading, I did notice some categories were absent or could be restructured. A significant part of the information was in an ecology category that wasn't mentioned in the article format. There was some information about web repairs and structure in the description that could be moved to a webs section. Separating these may provide more homogeneity with other spider Wikipedia pages. There is also no information about what these spiders eat, how they mate, and how they reproduce. I struggled to find information specific to Agelena consociata, but found more information about the family of spiders here: http://www.arc.agric.za:8081/Family?FamilyID=1. There were also no illustrations, maybe we can find a picture. When looking at the Talk page, I saw, The Spider WikiProjects page has given the article a C-grade and classified it as low importance. I think the grade assigned is appropriate, the structure can be improved, and there is information missing in key categories. The Talk page has no discussion.

Salazarjhan (talk) 16:54, 6 October 2020 (CDT)

Agelena consociata – I really like this entry, special because I was curious about social spiders after a paper, we read in class; I looked particularly for a social spider. I think that the strength of this article is that it talks about the social behavior for spiders in general, and then in particular for A. consociate. Also, this entry explains in detail the ecology of this species, particularly, the ecology of living in a social group and how different individual cooperate in the group. Even though I enjoined reading this entry, I think it needs more information or organize the information that it already has; 1) I think that there is information in the social category and the ecology category that could be in just one, something like Social Behavior; 2) also, the ecology category there is information about the web which can be a new category too and how they use it in as a group and as an individual; 3) I think it would be great that two new categories were included, Reproduction and Mating, because being a social species make facilitate or increase the chances of mating and reproduce and it can change if your living as an individual, I think it would be really interesting to show how this differs in this species when they are living in solitary and in a group; and 4) this article could really use a picture of the species too. I like that the quality scale of this article is high (C-Class) and I agreed with the importance scale; Low-importance. There is not a lot of information out there that can be used to improve the low importance scale; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C26&q=%22Agelena+consociata%22+AND+%22behavior%22&btnG= Also, I just saw a comment in this article, in which he or she talks about some of the things I just said about breaking down the information that the articles always into different categories.