Talk:Carolina mantis

Hi
As producer of wikiproject mantodea, i am asking for the producer(s) of this page to contact me on my talk page about Changing the name of this page from Carolina mantis to Stagmomantis carolina because of the regulations of the wikiproject, if the producer(s) of the page would also like to join, then these changes would have to be made. Cheers ;)

as producer of wikiproject mantodea, yours scincerilly

B jacob (talk) 02:38, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Adding pictures
Would it be alright to add back some of the pictures I put before on this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carolina_mantis&oldid=505204949 Such as the pictures of an adult male, a few pictures of different color morphs of adult females to show color and pattern variation, threat pose of nymph, nymphs flattening out in response to danger, the hind wings of an adult female S. carolina, comparison of sub-adult male and female S. carolina (showing that the males have more pointy wing bud tips, not much of a bulge on the sides of the male's abdomen),  variation in size between two sub-adult female nymphs (I do not know the cause for that particular small mantis, but I think lack of food would make them grow into smaller adults.), pictures of 1st instar nymphs (hatchlings) and maybe have some T. sinensis L1 nymphs pictures to compare and an adult female S. carolina laying an ootheca. I will also take some photos of the eyes during the daytime and nighttime of my two S. carolina I have at the moment (one male and female), but the eye color may vary with each color morph. Males of S. carolina interestingly do not seem to have very much variation in their color and adult males from what I can remember are always the same color. But looking through bugguide I see one male that is light colored http://bugguide.net/node/view/836400/bgimage. http://bugguide.net/node/view/735174/bgimage I am guessing they are not S. limbata and that they did not molt recently. http://bugguide.net/node/view/81329/bgimage http://bugguide.net/node/view/11553/bgimage Darker form males. So males do vary. Happy1892 (talk) 23:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 23:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, please. Abductive  (reasoning) 06:17, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I added some pictures. Please feel free to take them out of the article if you guys think the photo is not important.Happy1892 (talk) 01:20, 9 September 2014 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 01:20, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

removal of content explained
I recently removed excessive, unwarranted content per Wikipedia policies and guidelines. First, the gallery of "Additional images" was becoming simply an indiscriminate photo album, with redundant photos that added little or no new content. WP:Gallery discusses how galleries should and should not be used. Secondly, I removed the overly intricate listing of every U.S. state with records on BugGuide for three reasons: 1)BugGuide is a User-generated site and should not be considered a reliable source; 2)using only photos is a synthesis of primary sources, which is a bit too close to WP:Original research; and 3)by focusing on U.S. states a significant Geographical bias is introduced: why should each U.S. state be mentioned but none in Mexico, or anywhere else?  --Animalparty-- (talk) 07:51, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Future here, there is no useful range information at all now, it simply incorrectly lists a non-inclusive set of areas in the US without making clear that it also lives in other parts of the US not listed. There are also no useful pictures. It is disgusting that there used to be a lot of information here, and now there is almost none, and whoever whittled it down didn't even bother to leave it in a useful state.71.63.160.210 (talk) 05:27, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, there are no useful pictures for identification. This is awful because people in the past had taken the time to ask on the talk page before posting the pictures, and then they all got deleted in bulk. Apparently without having consulted the talk page to see if it had been discussed, which it had been. Would somebody please revert this all the way back to when it had content?71.63.160.210 (talk) 05:29, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

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