Talk:Leucorchestris arenicola

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What has this article got to do with cocktails with gin?

Athene noctua 22:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

German Article
For some reason the German version of this article has much more material including pictures and english language references http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucorchestris_arenicola We need to get some of this into the English version of the article. Rifter0x0000 (talk) 12:39, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

I was able to add the references form the German article, but I haven't figured out how to add the image

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:White_lady_spider_namibia.jpg

It doesn't look like you can reference an image from a different language version of wikipedia directly, and I hesitate to reupload it without being sure, even though the German page indicates this image was released by the author under the "Creative Commons" license. I don't know German, but the google translation of the page seems pretty clear on this point.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DDatei%3AWhite_lady_spider_namibia.jpg&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Rifter0x0000 (talk) 13:24, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Thats right. The photo is free for usage on all wikipedia sites. I helped the photographer (Thomas Mehler) to publish it on the german wikipedia pages. Too bad we can't use photo cross-language wise.

dflinkmann 05 January 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.201.43.138 (talk) 21:57, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Error?
If you read the paper cited in this article by Henschel nowhere does it say that male spiders have to drum the right message in order to mate with female spiders. It in fact says that male spiders drum to signal other male spiders and the author does not state that male spiders eat other male spiders if they don't "drum right". The author states that very little drumming is conducted between male and female spiders. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.145.103 (talk) 06:18, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

This statement is incorrect:

"If they do find a mate, they must be extremely careful, for drumming the wrong message can be deadly." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.138.92.237 (talk) 03:24, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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This is incorrect
"Male white lady spiders will travel more than a mile in one night searching for a mate." But in the referece it says: "In 16 observed complete excursions, male spiders walked 51 m (median, range 16–91 m) from their burrow along a path of 134 m (42–314 m)". Klaus D. Peter, Germany. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E1:71B:B00:1C80:E40E:D9E4:971F (talk) 19:33, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Comments and edits from a Behavioral Ecology student
Hi! This is a very well-written page! It covers a lot of topics and all the information is well explained. I fixed a few grammar mistakes and added a few hyperlinks. I have noticed that your in-text citation format is not consistent throughout the page. Sometimes you left a space after the sentence and before the cite while sometimes you did not; and sometimes you left a space between the citation and the following sentence while sometimes you didn’t. I helped change some of those citations. A few more places I found that need to be revised: 1) The last sentence in both male-male interactions and female-male interactions sections, you might have forgotten to cite. 2) In the reproduction section, you said “The mean size for clutches was found to be about 76.” You forgot to include the unit for it. A few more suggestions I have: 1) In the description section, you talked about the differences between males and females. I think it would be good to mention if it is sexual dimorphism. 2) At the foraging section, you briefly mentioned cannibalism. I would be interested to learn more about it. You can expand more on their non-sexual cannibalism behaviors. Arielfeng (talk) 12:51, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

This Wikipedia entry is very well-researched and well-written. It has really informative sections and subsections. I like the Mating section since it was very descriptive and accurate with many subsections. I found it very interesting that the frequency of mating is related to the male’s size and that the larger male mates more often. However, I would like to point out some revision suggestions. I would fix the citations so that there is no space between the “ref” tag and the end of the sentence. Additionally, there are some sentences that are not referenced like the last sentences in Male-male interactions and Female-male interactions. I added links to words like carapace, anterior, and posterior. More links could be added. Additionally, I think more pictures could be added and maybe a section on parental care if possible. Saachijain (talk) 05:41, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

I thought this was a very comprehensive and interesting article! It's interesting that these spiders do not build traditional webs and instead live in burrows. I corrected some repetition I found in the Description section. I fixed the spellings of a few words, including "burrows," "molted," and "cocoon." Under Diet, I linked the Wikipedia article on polyphagous and under Male-Female Interactions, I linked the article on fecundity. Under Vision, I clarified what the tapetum was. It would be useful to provide examples of what the spiders use as a camouflage coloring of their burrows under Habitat and Distribution. Also, if there is any information available about bites of this spider to its prey or to humans, this would be good to add. I made several grammatical corrects throughout your article as well. Mlschoening (talk) 21:19, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

I think this is a great article with lots of interesting information! One suggestion I have is to include a picture of both the male and female spider in the description section so that the reader can visualize the appearance differences that you are describing. Other than that I thought there was a wide range of information on this page and it was all quite fascinating to read about, and I thought it was interesting that you even discussed how behavior differs when different sexes interract. Lilygreenberg(talk) 13:38, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Wrong size
"Their bodies are larger than 5 in (13 cm) and their legs are nearly twice the size of the body at 10 in (25 cm).". There's no way they are that big. It would make them the largest huntsman species after Heteropoda Maxima (with a 3x larger body size). Yet you can't find a single picture online where they look bigger than the palm of a hand. The weight value given also doesn't match with the size. Someone must have confused cm with inches. 31.164.142.149 (talk) 21:38, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, the source used is clearly wrong – it seems to be a blog, and shouldn't be used. I've made a quick fix using a reliable source from the article. Peter coxhead (talk) 23:17, 25 August 2023 (UTC)