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A fact from Phasmatodea appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 October 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that ghost insects may camouflage themselves as leaves swaying in the breeze?
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An excellent article. Well organized, comprehensive, well references, well illustrated, interesting. All image licenses check out. All of my comments are minor fixes around clarity of writing:
Explain unfamiliar words (even if wikilinked) in the sentence (that way the reader doesn't have to leave your article to understand). Examples: cornified, Autotomy, ocelli, elaiosomes, bisexual, photoperiod, circumscription, sclerite
The article frequently shifts from singular to plural in a disconcerting way, e.g.:
They are born equipped with tiny compound eyes with a limited number of facets. As the insect grows...
...previously thought to be concentrated in the insect from its plant food sources. However, it now seems more likely that they manufacture their own defensive chemicals.
The best known of the stick insects is the Indian or laboratory stick insect (Carausius morosus). These insects grow
Unclear sentence: This chemical spray variation also corresponds with regionally specific color form populations in Florida which also have distinct behaviors. What are 'color form populations'?
Confusingly long sentence: By lowering the net production of early successional plants by consuming them and then augmenting the nutrients in the soil available to later successional plants through defecation, the walking stick ensures the tendency of early successional plants to swiftly immobilize soil nutrients in light gaps does not stymie new substantial growth and the recycling of the tropical forest.
This doesn't need to be dealt with before passing GA, but it might be worth thinking about expanding the As pets and In art sections or incorporating them elsewhere in the article since they're stubby.
Overall really excellent work, I have no major concerns. All of these comments should be pretty quick fixes. If you disagree with any of them or of the edits I made we can discuss. delldot∇.17:21, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The currrent version says: "An alternative is to divide the Phasmatodea into three suborders Agathemerodea (1 genus and 8 species), Timematodea (1 genus and 21 species) and Euphasmatodea. for the remaining taxa.[39] This division is, however, not fully supported by the molecular studies, which recover Agathemerodea as nested within Verophasmatodea rather than being the sister group of the latter group.".
This is the first mention of "Verophasmatodea" in the text (it's mentioned in the "Subgroups" table, but not in a way that helps much). In other words, this is meaningful only to someone who already knows a lot about phasmids. Maybe it could be re-worded as "... nested within Euphasmatodea to form the subgroup Verophasmatodea"? I'm not going to make the edit, as I'm not sure enough that it captures the intended meaning, but perhaps someone with more expertise could make a suitable amendment.
Urilarim (talk) 22:40, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This article needs to at least mention what stick insects eat. I didn't see anything either in this article or any on individual species I checked. I did see when they eat, but not what they eat. Will (Talk - contribs) 01:58, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]