Talk:Gulf fritillary

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File:Agraulis vanillae at Isla Margarita.jpg

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The Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) is a bright orange butterfly of the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Heliconiinae, found from Argentina in the south to California in the north.Photograph: Wilfredor

vanillae

What is the connection with Vanilla (genus), which apparently gives rise to its specific name vanillae, "of vanilla"?--Wetman (talk) 15:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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A pair of gulf fritillaries (Agraulis vanillae) mating. The gulf fritillary is a bright orange butterfly of the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Heliconiinae, found along their migration route, ranging from Argentina in the south to upper California in the north.Photograph: MrX; edits: Gwillhickers, Crisco 1492

Many edits for Gulf fritillary

I made several additions and several changes to this article as an undergraduate student in a Behavioral Ecology class. I included an updated description section and added more information about habitat, oviposition, life cycle, migration, predation, and mating. I tried to add citations for the previous writer's work as they did not cite some of their work. As a new editor and writer, I look forward to getting some comments on what information I should add and how I should improve this article for future readers. I hope this helps!Krecto176 (talk) 04:58, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kathy! This was a well researched article with lots of good information, especially in life cycle and mating. I modified a couple of the section headings to match the outline we got in class. I also changed your image captions in the taxobox to dorsal and ventral instead of upperside and underside. Lastly, I made a few minor sentence edits and removed some of the links that were on multiple iterations of the same word. If you choose to go back and edit this article further, I would recommend citing more specifically where each piece of information came from instead of citing two sources at the end of each paragraph. I also think it would be nice to have more of a summary of the article's major points in the overview. Hope that helps! Mnoronha456 (talk) 04:24, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I thought the article was really well-researched and informative overall. I added information in the lead section that stood out to me from the body paragraphs. I also made some grammatical edits to improve the flow of the article. I also italicized many scientific names and linked to some articles. I was hoping that you could edit the sentence “These passion vine plants are suitable host plants as they provide a good structure for larval host habitats which enables young populations of gulf fritillaries to be sufficiently nurtured and protected.” I didn't really understand what you meant, so I didn't want to edit it in case I was misunderstanding it. Engelde 02:02, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Really great article. I especially like the really detailed life history section with substantial information on egg, larva, pupa, chrysalis and adult categories (most pages don't have this level of detail for life history). I edited the lead section because some of the wording was redundant or confusing. One thing that I think could make this article better would be to place the in-text citations after the sentence they correspond to. The way it is written now, with all of the citations for a section placed together at the very end, make it unclear what information came from which source. Other than that, very well written and researched- nice job!KmarcusBC (talk) 01:01, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kathy. Overall, this article is very well written and is really informative. I especially like the Life cycle section as it extensively covers how the butterfly transforms over time. There are few suggestions I have for you to improve this article. I think merging the geographical range and habitat sections might be a good idea since there is little information on both of these sections. I also think that adding a section on Predators might be really helpful since you already have a very well written section on the species Defense mechanisms. Lastly, adding some photos of the species eggs or larvae will be helpful! Please let me know if you have any questions. Otherwise, great job! Sungjaepark (talk) 16:30, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Great job on the article! I really liked it overall. One comment I would make is that it is overall very general, and many of the things that are written about the butterfly could be written about many species of butterflies. I especially noticed this in the nuptial gifts section. If they could be tightened up with some more detailed information based specifically on this butterfly, that would improve the article! Great article, and good luck! Lily1004 (talk) 02:20, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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taxonomy change

Agraulis is treated now as a subgenus of Dione, hence its current scientific name is Dione vanillae.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Konrad k (talk • contribs)

Can you link to a source? - Donald Albury 22:43, 29 July 2021 (UTC)