Talk:Dermestidae

I liked how this article was organized, specie by specie with headings and everything. Much easier to read and follow and the pictures were great, it's one thing to describe what a beetle looks like and another to actually see a picture of what it looks like.-Lauren —Preceding unsigned comment added by Runwild2006 (talk • contribs) 03:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I realy enjoyed this article, it is more alive than most. The pictures make it and are backed up by awesome content. This topic made for a great project which is why the article turned out so great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ctmfc (talk • contribs) 01:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Great article! I like the way it is set up species by species. The only suggestion I have would be to move the information in General Larva Characteristics about feeding in the dry/skeletonized stage up to the Medicolegal section. It would make more sense if it followed after your statement that Dermestids show up 5-11 days after death. Moosenik (talk) 17:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

This article should be recognized. It hits all the high points. They describe the many types of Dermestids and contained pictures. It gives the reader a chance to really understand what they are reading about. Dbw279 (talk) 20:44, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the article is very informative. I really like the individual blurbs on each species. The only suggestion I have is to maybe create the page for each red link with a short blurb and then allow others to expand on those pages later. This would give the reader a brief definition of things like urban entomology and accumulated degree days. Great job! Alli5414 (talk) 16:54, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikispecies

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you all know about the Wikispecies project [[1]]. Your article fits in with their project, so look into it. ABrundage, Texas A&M University (talk) 20:38, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

peer review

Great job on the article! I have a few suggestions that would make your article better. The introduction is informative, however there are a few grammar mistakes. Since Dermestidae is a family, it's a singular word, so your first sentence should read: "Dermestidae is a family of Coleoptera..."

• When you list the common names, they should either all be plural (i.e. use the word "beetles" in all of the common names), or all be singular (i.e. use the word "beetle" in all of the common names).
• In your introduction, please give an example of a business losing millions, or give some sort of statistic other than "millions"
• Under your Larder Beetles section, I think there is a misspelling - did you mean to say "They also have two spin like appendages on the posterior end..."? Or did you mean to say "spine-like"?

I only posted some edits as to leave room for someone else to add in comments! Weilingz (talk) 15:50, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Great input--

• Actually, "Dermestidae" is plural, like all the taxa in the info box from "Animalia" on down. ("Smiths are a family of people...")
• All plural or all singular is something I can't get worked up about. If the text flows well, is readable and accurate, that's enough for me in that respect.
• Yes, we need a reference for "Some species cause millions of dollars in damage to natural fibers and can cost businesses millions when populations get out of control." (I doubt the cost of bow rehairs needed on account of bow bugs amounts to millions...) Anyone?
• "Spine-like..." fixed.

Thanks! __Just plain Bill (talk) 03:21, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

This article is great. It is easy to read and understand. Most of my suggestions are about the pictures you did and didn’t provide in the article.

• The gallery at the bottom of the page is nice, but it’s just stuck at the bottom. I think it would be more affective if ya’ll place the pictures within the article.
• Is there any way ya’ll can get pictures of each of the species ya’ll discussed? I think it would make the article better by helping out people who learn better with pictures.

Overall, I liked the article. Good job!!

--Sadiezapalac (talk) 23:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

We're working on it. Some of the images were already on the existing Dermestidae page, and the 'D. maculatus' images were taken because they were recovered from a raccoon carcass. We're still trying to get the other species, but it's a little harder than we had originally thought. Noromaru (talk) 04:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow! this has everything one could ever want or need to know about dermestidae. this article is very informative and well composed. keep up the good work. love the image gallery --heartbreaker5785 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 18:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Ya'll did an amazing job formatting the article to the wikipedia style. I really like the image gallery and that you covered so many different species. AMFaris (talk) 02:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I have a suggestion for you. I am part of the Home Stored Product Entomology group. Our entire page is composed of how insects effect stored products. Would you like to add a link in your Stored Product section that goes to our page here on Wikipedia. I think that it would be a nice internal link that would match up well with your section. You don't seem to have covered much in that section, and it would be beneficial for people to utilize the link that would go to our page if they were interested in reading more about stored product pests. What do you think?! (Lamanda14 (talk) 20:26, 13 April 2008 (UTC))

I think this article is overall pretty good. There are a couple of sentences that don't flow very well. For example, the sentence that discusses Dermestidae's role in forensic entomology. The word since is used too much which causes the sentence to be choppy. Jbratz (talk) 20:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)