Talk:Larinioides sclopetarius

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 September 2020 and 17 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): M.s.w.lee.

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Comments from Behavioral Ecology Students
This article is nicely organized and has more than sufficient detail in each subsection. I found the sections about web types and plasticity to be very well done. I have added a paragraph about this spider’s prevalence in the high rise buildings of Chicago in the interactions with humans section. I also researched a bit about this spider’s low likelihood of biting and how serious the bite is and wrote a few sentences about that. Prernask (talk) 17:21, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Peer Review From Student
Hello! I edited your article and moved some information around, I moved the section Plasticity under the Description section as I felt it fit better here because it discusses growth, weight gain that pertain to the size of the spider. I also moved some information from the Description section into the Webs category, as this information discussed the webs they create and how they change as they age so I felt it was more appropriate under this section. I moved the plasticity section under description if felt more applicable here, I might remove the header all together and just add it to description, I just have a few questions/suggestions regarding your page.

I was a little confused by the sexual cannibalism section. I was not sure the prevalent of it in these spiders, does it occur frequently? Is it sexual cannibalism that happens after copulation? Does it only happen when resources are scarce? I might reword and add some more information here and emphasize more on the sexual cannibalism in the spider's, prevalence when it occurs and then talk about benefits within the spiderlings. It sounds like quite advantageous behavior for the spiderlings but it doesn't appear to happen frequently so I was just confused about why there is a disconnect between.

L. sclopetarius exhibits high levels of activities in unfamiliar environments, which may have contributed to their widespread colonization of urban areas.[1] In experimental conditions, they tend to move and explore new settings more than their other urban counterparts Zygiella x-notata.

I might move this information under locomotion. This information is not really describing social behavior of the spider,I think it is mores the movement of the spider itself, but I was not totally sure.

Under the locomotion I might elaborate on what the ballooning technique is, as I do not know what it is and it could lengthen this section as well.

For the category Protandry, I might remove it all together and place it under another, although I am not total sure which, maybe social behaviors? or after description ?

If you have any questions or need any clarifications let me know! Katherine.handley (talk) 18:57, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Peer review
Overall, this article is very well-written, well-cited, and presents a lot of information on the species. I only changed a few things, mostly focusing on obvious grammatical errors and errors in sentence structure. I attempted to make sections more clear and concise where needed, as well as hyperlinking in some additional terms and phrases that may be unknown to the reader. However, I did find some inconsistencies in the presented length of the spider. In the lead section, female and male spiders are described as ranging in length from 10-14mm and 8-9mm, respectively, while in the description section, these lengths are 4.5-6.25mm and 4-25-7mm, respectively. Which of these is accurate, if either? You should remain consistent throughout. SlyFox52 (talk) 19:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Size
Confused about the sizes listed here (and their source from the Kleintech & Schneider 2010). Every other reference I can find to L. sclopetarius size mentions the upper bound of female body size in the neighborhood of 15-19mm. Is it possible that the somewhat contested taxonomic history of this species has contributed to differing ideas of what sizes they reach? 76.182.77.241 (talk) 15:40, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

North America
In the habitat and distribution section, the article refers to North America as a country. If this is to define the north of the United States the wording used is confusing as the term North America is more commonly referred to as the continent containing Canada, the United States, and Mexico. 96.20.87.44 (talk) 02:00, 18 May 2024 (UTC)