Talk:Thomisus spectabilis

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I added a few sections to this page. I added a Phylogeny section, Habitat section, Diet section, Behavior section, and Bite section, with appropriate subsections for each. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to change!

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
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): SatvikR78. Peer reviewers: Eanisman, Dgoldblum, Lilygreenberg.

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Peer Review Comment

 * I added blue links to this page and made some major changes to the lead section.
 * Some of the sentences in the lead section were incomplete so I fixed the grammatical errors.
 * The lead section went into far too much detail about the coevolution of a preference for symmetry between Australian crab spiders and honeybees. I removed this detailed information from the lead section and added it to its own subsection under pray capture and added a single sentences to the lead section that provides general, introductory information about symmetry affinity. Symmetry affinity information had also been reiterated under the cues section, so I took any information from the cues section about symmetry affinity and added it to the new section as well. I corrected for any repetition and reworded some of the sentences.
 * Typically, citations are listed at the end of the paragraph unless the citation corresponds only to a specific sentence or key detail in the paragraph. Your paragraphs should end with citations.
 * Please feel free to comment on or reorganize any of my changes if necessary.
 * P.S. don't forget to sign your talk page comments with four tildes

--Eanisman (talk) 20:31, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Student Suggestion
Overall, really good article! I fixed some mistakes in the genetic population structure the family name was italicized. In animals on genus, species and subgenus species names are italicized. I also changed bp to base pair and hyperlinked it. I feel like bp is a bio term that an average reader, which is your target audience on Wikipedia, would not understand so to increase clarity I changed all bps to base pair. My suggestion would be if you are going to talk about the different sequenced genes of this spider make sure to explain that these SNPs or mutations are different from the other clade. This paragraph was overall a bit confusing to follow so I'd recommend trying to reorganize it. Dgoldblum (talk) 03:11, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Lilygreenberg (talk) 06:30, 3 November 2020 (UTC) I added hyperlinks to locations and species and adjusted sentences for grammar and clarity. I had a couple of clarifying questions. One is in the description section it says that the spider changes to white in both white and yellow daisies, however I was wondering if this meant to say only in white daisies because the next line says the spider changes to yellow in yellow daisies. Another clarifying question is in terms of the "lingulate foret" I tried to find a definition for this to add to the article yet could not, when I looked it up mostly "ligulate foret" comes up so I went back through the article cited and it does in fact say "lingulate," so this phrase could use some clarification and further research into what the proper spelling is.

HarrisZW777 (talk) 10:02, 1 December 2020 (UTC) I think this article is really strong and well on its way to reaching Good Article status. I particularly liked all of the images that are in this article. It helps the reader visualize what has been written about. I did make a few changes to your article. I condensed a few sentences to make them easier to read and understand. While they were not grammatically incorrect, I thought this would help ur article be more 'Well Written'. I also think a section on the spiders' interaction with humans and livestock would help your article be more 'Broad in its Coverage'. Other than that, I really liked this article and think you did a really good job.

Behavioral Ecology Peer Review
I have added an image for prey capture, as well as hyperlinked some scientific classification to further enhance the reader experience. I have fixed grammar and punctuation error, and checked for coherent writing. Overall, this article was very informative, with appropriate use of pictures, and I enjoyed reading it very much. I would just check if a rearrangement of the Behavior section would be possible, as it does seem rather long. Dyklee (talk) 04:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Student Feedback
I really liked all the images added, I thought it added a lot to the description of the spider and of the prey-predator behavior. I changed the introduction a bit to read more clearly and also edited a few grammar errors here. I moved the Web section to the appropriate section. Overall I thought this was an extremely interesting article that was well-written, especially the prey-predator behavior and also the ways it uses its color changes. 17lchang (talk) 23:21, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Habitat section needs clarifications?
As the result of an educational-project this article is impressive :-)

Could I suggest that some of the Habitat section needs tidying up and explaining? For example: "Since this involves creating contrast between itself and the flower, it will pick flower colors and flower positions that maximize the contrast."

"Contrast," needs explanation. Is "crypsis" in fact what is meant, or does this contrast relate to the use of deceptive attracting signals evolved in the spider to mimic those of the flower?

Also, I didn't find the comments about how the spider chooses its hunting ground with relation to prey numbers and flower colour very clear.



FloweringOctopus (talk) 13:25, 10 November 2023 (UTC)