Talk:Small skipper

Assessment comment
Substituted at 04:47, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki14Sept The writing for the Small Skipper article was very simple, dry, and a little repetitive. The “Appearance” section could be improved by adding detailed pictures and describing the butterflies in a more engaging manner. This section was extremely boring to read and ultimately did not do a very good job of describing the appearance of the butterfly. The pictures that are included in this article are very nice and clearly show all the views of the wings. Even though there is very little behavior data in the article, I found the data that was published about the caterpillars very interesting. I especially liked that the eggs hatch, sort of pupate before hatching in the spring as a fully-fledged caterpillar, and then pupate again to become a full grown butterfly. These facts were included under a “Life cycle and food plants” section, but this could easily be labeled as a Behavior section and then split into a subsection for food preferences. Taxonomy and phylogeny are also not included in this article. These would be important to include because there are many different species in the genus Thymelicus and it would be interesting to learn how this species is distinguished from the others. It would also be interesting to include a “Mortality” section to show what the most common causes of death are for this species and illustrate whether or not humans are impacting its survival. The talk page of this article was basically nonexistent. The last time someone commented on it was in 2007, so this detail plus the articles low importance ranking shows that it is not a priority article for Project Lepidoptera. ~Mullenm05 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mullenm05 (talk • contribs) 03:56, 15 September 2017 (UTC)