Talk:Chilocorus orbus

A fact from Chilocorus orbus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 November 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that both the adults and the alligator-like larvae of the twice-stabbed lady beetle prey on the walnut scale?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:24, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the twice-stabbed lady beetle preys on the walnut scale? Source: "Two predators—the twicestabbed lady beetle, Chilocorus orbus, and another small beetle, Cybocephalus californicus —often occur in large numbers and may control low numbers of the walnut scale."

Reviewed: Far future in fiction
Comment: This QPQ is a two article hook

Created/expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 06:21, 20 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Cwmhiraeth, review follows:

Chilocorus orbus: 5x expansion from 15 October; article is well written and cited inline throughout; I am not familiar with some of the sources used but happy to AGF that they are reliable for this field; I didn't find any issues with overly close paraphrasing form the sources used; my only issue with this article is that the fact that it is named for the red slashes on its back is not cited, I also like to stick quite rigidly to WP:LEAD in that it shouldn't contain information not in the main text

Quadraspidiotus juglansregiae: new article created 18 October; meets length requirement; article is well written and cited inline throughout; sources all look to be reliable; no issues with overly close paraphrasing found;

Hook: I find the hook interesting based on the common names of the insects, if desired more interest might be generated by mentioning the "alligator-like" larvae which also prey on the walnut scale; hook is mentioned in both articles and checks out to the source cited; a double QPQ has been provided. Looks good to me. If the minor issue with the ladybird article (source for common naming) can be sorted then this is can be ticked - Dumelow (talk) 10:58, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 ... that both the adults and the alligator-like larvae of the twice-stabbed lady beetle prey on the walnut scale?

@Dumelow: I have rearranged the lead but not removed the citations, although I agree with you in principle. The four citations in a row were provided by the clever Qbugbot which created the stub, and I don't want to write a taxonomy section. I have added ALT1. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Cwmhiraeth, ALT0 and ALT1 are both approved - Dumelow (talk) 06:59, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

picture[edit]

This article very much needs a picture of its subject, preferably adult and larval forms! --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 18:18, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]