Talk:Aedes taeniorhynchus

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2019 and 4 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): XuLily (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Hvmoolani, Rebeccaspell, Joshkim wustl.

Hvmoolani (talk · contribs) 15 October 2019 I would like to thank the primary author of this article for adding so much research and information on this species. The formatting allows for an easy read of this article and the research focueses on the most relevent parts (rather than details of the experiments). I have gone through and changed all of the Aedes taeniorhynchus to Ae. taeniorhynchus after the initial use. I have also added many hyperlinks to body parts, ecological terms (e.g. salt marsh). While to the great depth of the research is great, it makes the article look wordy when images do not supplement the information. Since there are not any other images apart from the cover images in Wiki Media for the fly, I added some images based on other information in the article. If any scientists research this fly and have images, please add them to this article.

Rebeccaspell (talk · contribs) 17 October 2019 Very nice work on this article! It is very thorough and well-written. The edits I made were mostly very minor grammatical changes and adding a few spaces where they had been missing. I also adjusted some of the hyperlinks, which were to a fly species page that didn’t exist, so that they redirected to the fly’s genus, so that even though the reader can’t get to the page for that specific species, they can still get a sense (I did not change the name of the link though). I also adjusted a few “it”s to more specific nouns for clarity and added some transitional words to aid in the writing’s flow. My one suggestion would be to add a little more information to the lead section to make it more of an exciting introduction.

Joshkim_wustl (talk · contribs) 17 October 2019 Thank you to the author of this article for a thorough job. I slightly modified the lead paragraph to more closely resemble those of other Diptera wikipedia pages. You may also want to include some more interesting and relevant information about the fly beyond just distribution in the lead paragraph. The sentence about Aedes niger seems a little out of place in the genetics section, so consider moving it or deleting it altogether. In the mutualism section, it would be helpful to add more information (if such information can be found) about exactly how different species interact in a mutualistic way with A. taeniorhynchus. Good job including several recommended subsections in the article!

Hvmoolani (talk · contribs) 3 November 2019 I would like to thank the primary author of this article for looking at the comments on the talk page and making appropriate edits. Despite adding more information, the author maintains the strong flow of the article. In order to match the flow of the article I changed the introduction section from “The species is known to be a pest to humans and mechanisms for controlling Ae. taeniorhynchus survival have been developed. This mosquito is also commonly used in experimental studies and observational studies, with studies on conditions affecting development, physiological markers, and behavioral patterns. Behavioral patterns include periodic cycles for biting, flight, and swarming.” to “This mosquito is commonly used in experimental studies and observational studies, with studies on conditions affecting development, physiological markers, and behavioral patterns. Behavioral patterns include periodic cycles for biting, flight, and swarming. The species is known to be a pest to humans and mechanisms for controlling Ae. taeniorhynchus survival have been developed. The United States has spent and continues to spend millions of dollars to control and contain Ae. taeniorhynchus.” Many of the statements in the introduction did not have citations, so I also added the appropriate citations. I also hyperlinked about 30 terms like subgenus, migration, and other scientific terms that are not commonly known. I fixed small grammar and typos in the mutualism and noise detection sections. The author shoudl also consider adding some images based on other information in the article. If any scientists research this fly and have images, please add them to this article.

Christina.lindberg (talk · contribs) 5 November 2019 Great job making new additions to this already thorough article. The article has a great flow to it and maintains a scientific and unbiased tone throughout. I corrected a few spelling errors as well as edited some sentence structure and grammar throughout, but overall, the article is very well-written. I also added a section on Home range and added part of the distribution section to this section and added some more hyperlinks. In addition, I added the section "enemies" and added your sections on "Parasites" and "diseases" as subsections. A minor suggestion is to rearrange the description section so that there are separate descriptions for larva, pupa, and adult. You could also perhaps add sections on the microbiome of the fly and conservation of habitats of the fly, however, I understand that this may not be possible with the information available online. Excellent article!

Montana.sievert (talk) 02:09, 6 November 2019 (UTC) Lily, this article is really great! It's well written, contains tons of information, and covers nearly every section suggested by the Diperta project format. The only major sections missing are microbiome and conservation, so obviously if it were possible to add those that would be amazing! The bulk of my edits were small-editing word choice, rephrasing some things to be more straightforward or less repetitive, and I added some new Wiki links. I think something that would be great is if you could go through and add really brief explanations of terms that a general audience wouldn't know and lacks a Wikipedia page to link. For example you referred to a hypopgium which I doubt is a term a general audience would know. You also talked about an experiment that saw "split temperatures" affect life spans of this mosquito, but it isn't intuitive or obvious what that condition was. I also think some of your sections are really long and would benefit from division with sub-headers (or more sub-headers!), so a reader can more easily orient themselves and not get lost in a long section. Seriously though you've done an amazing job!