Talk:Tegeticula intermedia

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ecampell22.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:04, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Lepidoptera Project for Class
I am a senior at Washington University in St. Louis. My goal for my behavioral ecology class project is to write a thorough article for this species. When I began, only a short blurb about its habitat, wingspan, and name was available. The taxo box lacked photos. I will have added a host of data to this page which will be peer reviewed by other students in class. Let me know if you end up editing my work! Ecampell22 (talk) 17:50, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello! I made some general writing corrections, including varying sentence structure, correcting grammar, and capitalizing some proper nouns of locations. I also fixed a citation that was incorrectly formatted- speaking of citations, it would be good to include them for the Caterpillar and Pupa headings, since at least 1 citation/paragraph is the rule of thumb.  I also added a couple more links from your page.  Overall well done! Emilykh26 (talk) 21:30, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi! I added new subheading for your life cycle section and added in a bit more information on oviposition and egg (life cycle) from one of your sources. Good job! Z.kelley

Hello! I enjoyed reading about the Yucca moth and thought you did a great job covering a broad spectrum of details and explaining each section concisely. I was especially interested to learn that this moth burrows into the ground to cocoon! I went through and fixed a few grammatical and wording issues that I thought might confuse the reader such as clarifying the meaning of “sister pollinator-cheater species” and deleting the duplicate where you mentioned the Y. flaccida species twice in the same list. I also wanted to point out in the Parental Care section that it might be a good idea to switch the order of the Oviposition and Host plant selection for egg laying paragraphs. The reason being that it might be helpful to learn about how the yucca plant regulates the number of eggs laid (described in the host plant selection paragraph) before learning about how the T. intermedia uses superficial oviposition to cheat the plant. Richywutang2018 (talk) 04:37, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I switched the order of the paragraphs in the parental care section. You're right about it making more sense that way. Ecampell22 (talk) 04:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Overall a good, thorough article! It would greatly benefit from images of the moth and larva. It's also a little confusing that you refer to the moth as the "yucca moth" throughout the article, even though many species are referred to as yucca moth. However it would be repetitive to keep referring to it as "the moth" so I think this is alright. Keep up the good work!Crieber (talk) 23:18, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I added an external links section with a link to a site where one can view Pellmyr's pictures of T. intermedia and its range map.Ecampell22 (talk) 04:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)