This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Mantis article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: 1 |
Mantis is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. | |||||||||||||
This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 19, 2016. | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
A
fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
October 14, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that some
mantises mimic flowers convincingly enough to attract insect prey? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Featured article |
This
level-4 vital article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
There doesn't appear to be any substantial coverage of a minor sub-species, the Eremiaphila somalica, in Google Books or in scholarly searches. The single sentence on that page seems to be about all we can say about it. I'm not familiar with our standards in this subject-area, so I thought I would propose a discussion. It seems more sensible to maybe include a list of sub-species either on this page or as a separate List article, but not to have separate pages for every sub-species that has not been substantially written about. CorporateM ( Talk) 19:46, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm in an insects and society course at Radford University and I have been researching the many cultural influences of the mantis. In particular, I found numerous articles relating to the development of a surveillance robot that is largely inspired by the physiology of the mantis. I think this would be an interesting addition to this page, under the heading, "Relationship with humans". I can draft a short section and post it tomorrow on the talk page. Let me know what you think. Cstevens2 ( talk) 04:34, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
References
Good Santexmorella ( talk) 16:37, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I added a reference (to Bauhaus' song "The Passion of Lovers") in the Art and Literature section. Unfortunately, I'm not at all adept with the editor (which I presume may be HTML).So could someone help me out by adding a citation to the reference section please? MarcoDeSade ( talk) 03:24, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Idk Stop people and think ( talk) 00:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
I didn't see birds, like hummingbirds, in the list of things in this article that mantises are reported to eat. Read this and update the article because a lot of people care about hummingbirds. It would surprise a lot of people to learn that the mantises they buy for their garden may be killing the hummingbirds they're feeding in that garden.
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Praying-Mantises-Hunt-Down-Birds-Worldwide.html https://www.treehugger.com/animals/praying-mantises-released-pest-control-are-hunting-hummingbirds.html
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Mantis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 00:34, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Mantis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 14:50, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
To be corrected: «The name mantodea is formed from the Ancient Greek words μάντις (mantis) meaning "prophet", and εἶδος (eidos) meaning "form" or "type"»
Actually it derives from the word mantis - AND the greek adjectival suffix -ώδη (plural), ΝΟΤ ΤΗΕ NOUN είδος. The adj suffix from είδος would be -(ο)ειδή (english -oid or -id) and NOT -odea. Please correct.
See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CF%8E%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82 2A02:85F:E2:100:78EE:ED54:A6E8:4E78 ( talk) 20:36, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi
I have just uploaded a photograph of a molting african mantis (Sphodromantis Lineola) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sphodromantis_Lineola_molting.jpg
As this page does not yet feature a similar image to illustrate this important part of the insect life cycle, I thought it would be a good addition to the "Reproduction and life history" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdagioRibbit ( talk • contribs) 07:47, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Should there be mention of the common (but, I believe, apocryphal) notion that it is illegal in some places to kill a mantis? PurpleChez ( talk) 12:43, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
@ Videsh Ramsahai: I adjusted the cladogram to avoid the expansion-depth limit. Can you review it to make sure I didn't introduce any errors? [1] davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:26, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
So perhaps mantises can range in size from 2 cm to a meter or more in length? The description is incompetent. 99.42.89.21 ( talk) 16:37, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
I have witnessed this: a pet dog, a small mutt, overpowered and devoured a preying mantis in Carrollton, Texas. Pbrower2a ( talk) 15:02, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
A Mantis is also well known as a Praying Mantis, because there "hands" look like they are praying. ( nationalgeografic.com ) Over5help550 ( talk) 21:41, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Mantis article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: 1 |
Mantis is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. | |||||||||||||
This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 19, 2016. | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
A
fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
October 14, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that some
mantises mimic flowers convincingly enough to attract insect prey? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Featured article |
This
level-4 vital article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
There doesn't appear to be any substantial coverage of a minor sub-species, the Eremiaphila somalica, in Google Books or in scholarly searches. The single sentence on that page seems to be about all we can say about it. I'm not familiar with our standards in this subject-area, so I thought I would propose a discussion. It seems more sensible to maybe include a list of sub-species either on this page or as a separate List article, but not to have separate pages for every sub-species that has not been substantially written about. CorporateM ( Talk) 19:46, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm in an insects and society course at Radford University and I have been researching the many cultural influences of the mantis. In particular, I found numerous articles relating to the development of a surveillance robot that is largely inspired by the physiology of the mantis. I think this would be an interesting addition to this page, under the heading, "Relationship with humans". I can draft a short section and post it tomorrow on the talk page. Let me know what you think. Cstevens2 ( talk) 04:34, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
References
Good Santexmorella ( talk) 16:37, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I added a reference (to Bauhaus' song "The Passion of Lovers") in the Art and Literature section. Unfortunately, I'm not at all adept with the editor (which I presume may be HTML).So could someone help me out by adding a citation to the reference section please? MarcoDeSade ( talk) 03:24, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Idk Stop people and think ( talk) 00:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
I didn't see birds, like hummingbirds, in the list of things in this article that mantises are reported to eat. Read this and update the article because a lot of people care about hummingbirds. It would surprise a lot of people to learn that the mantises they buy for their garden may be killing the hummingbirds they're feeding in that garden.
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Praying-Mantises-Hunt-Down-Birds-Worldwide.html https://www.treehugger.com/animals/praying-mantises-released-pest-control-are-hunting-hummingbirds.html
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Mantis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 00:34, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Mantis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 14:50, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
To be corrected: «The name mantodea is formed from the Ancient Greek words μάντις (mantis) meaning "prophet", and εἶδος (eidos) meaning "form" or "type"»
Actually it derives from the word mantis - AND the greek adjectival suffix -ώδη (plural), ΝΟΤ ΤΗΕ NOUN είδος. The adj suffix from είδος would be -(ο)ειδή (english -oid or -id) and NOT -odea. Please correct.
See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CF%8E%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82 2A02:85F:E2:100:78EE:ED54:A6E8:4E78 ( talk) 20:36, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi
I have just uploaded a photograph of a molting african mantis (Sphodromantis Lineola) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sphodromantis_Lineola_molting.jpg
As this page does not yet feature a similar image to illustrate this important part of the insect life cycle, I thought it would be a good addition to the "Reproduction and life history" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdagioRibbit ( talk • contribs) 07:47, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Should there be mention of the common (but, I believe, apocryphal) notion that it is illegal in some places to kill a mantis? PurpleChez ( talk) 12:43, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
@ Videsh Ramsahai: I adjusted the cladogram to avoid the expansion-depth limit. Can you review it to make sure I didn't introduce any errors? [1] davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:26, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
So perhaps mantises can range in size from 2 cm to a meter or more in length? The description is incompetent. 99.42.89.21 ( talk) 16:37, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
I have witnessed this: a pet dog, a small mutt, overpowered and devoured a preying mantis in Carrollton, Texas. Pbrower2a ( talk) 15:02, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
A Mantis is also well known as a Praying Mantis, because there "hands" look like they are praying. ( nationalgeografic.com ) Over5help550 ( talk) 21:41, 27 July 2023 (UTC)