User talk:Bfpage

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I am substituting my self-made illustration, that I have released into the public domain, with an illustration I found online.

bpage (talk) 21:21, 25 December 2009 (UTC) ______________________________________________________________________________________[reply]

A nice bit of coding someone did: Bfpage | =-=

clipped from hymenoptera

The Parasitica is an artificial (paraphyletic) group comprising the majority of Hymenopteran insects, with respective members living as parasitoids on what amounts to nearly "every other species of insect", and many non-insects. Most species are small, with the ovipositor adapted for piercing. In some hosts the parasitoids induce metamorphosis prematurely, and in others it is prolonged. There are even species ("hyperparasites") that are parasitoids on other parasitoids. The Parasitica lay their eggs inside or on another insect (egg, larva or pupa) and their larvae grow and develop within or on that host. The host is nearly always killed. Many parasitic Hymenoptera are used as biological control control agents to control pests, such as caterpillars, true bugs and hoppers, flies, and weevils.

bpage (talk) 03:06, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

a begining for parasitoid wasp Chrysidoidea

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Welcome back to the Wikipedia community. Some useful pages are:

If you have any other questions just drop a line. --The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 00:19, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: De-Stubbing and Such

A lot of Wikipedia is indeed run by automated or semi-automated processes, but there are thousands of us lurking out there. Believe it or not, every one of those "WELCOME TO WIKIPEDIA" things is actually done by a human being (by inserting {{subst:welcome}} into the new talk page). I am indeed a real person, and you're welcome with regards to the communication - I know from experience it can be rather vexing to have things deleted without warning, especially when someone's new to the website. I usually try to communicate with people (like yourself) who genuinely seem to be attempting to contribute to the project. To answer your two questions:

To de-stub the article you made on the corn-borer, you simply remove the template from the page - you'll usually find it near the bottom and in this case it's {{Crambidae-stub}}. Per WP:BOLD, anyone can do this if they feel they've successfully fleshed out an article enough for it to no longer warrant the appellation, so go ahead.
You can find all sorts of biology articles to work on, but they're rather scattered about. Among them you might try:

The biology stubs listing: [1]
The "Requested Articles" listing for the Natural Sciences: [2]
There's also extra, more specific stub-types (like the one on your page for the classification Crambidae) at [3]
You may also want to look at Wikiproject Biology, which is an internal, non-obligatory group of Wikipedians with interest in the subject area. This is of course completely optional and you need not do so, but some people like to coordinate and the like.

Feel free to leave anything else on my talk page and I'll endeavor to answer it. Oh, and on a side-note - great work learning the wikipedia markup language to format your articles. The articles I've began don't look half as good, and I need to consult the reference documents about 80 times to even manage that! Good luck and enjoy. Zelse81 (talk) 04:39, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References vs. Footnotes

Although I agree the reference section is composed of footnotes, by convention the section is called "References" in Wikipedia. Also, when you add content to talk pages, new notes go at the bottom, not the top. The welcome pages above have very useful information for new contributors. If you need any help, ask me on my talk page or place {{helpme}} on this page and ask your question below. Again, welcome! --N419BH (talk) 04:21, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]