Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arthropods

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Arthropods, a collaborative effort to improve and expand Wikipedia's coverage of arthropods. If you would like to participate, visit the project page where you can join the project and/or contribute to discussion.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

Archives
Archive 1 (April 2006-March 2007)

[edit] Millipedes on Aves

Do Millipedes catch rides on birds? --Mako

I have provided a source for that statement. In this particular study done in Slovakia, "18 species of millipedes were found in 7 different types of nests of 40 bird species". They feed in the nests and use the birds to go from one nest to another, but do not do any harm to the birds. IronChris | (talk) 02:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Schmidt Sting Pain Index

I found this on the WP:TOL talk page; maybe someone here can take a look at it. IronChris | (talk) 06:24, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Can some of you knowledgable and discerning scientist Wikipedians take a look at this please? This article has currently been getting some coverage in popular "gee whiz funny link of the day... how goofy!" type blogs ( I hate it when this happens and the article in question is dubious... I think it gives a bad impression of wikipedia), but it seems to be mainly based on the idea that this one insect scientist guy wrote some goofy comments for an insect sting pain index one day. Ok, I agree that insect scientists are allowed to have senses of humour (WITHIN LIMITS, for the sake of us all), but I am concerned that 1) this scale is not really widespread and may be just one scale promoted by one guy without much acceptance in the insect expert community. 2) the pdf article linked which this wikipedia entry seems to be based on does not seem to say that Schmidt actually wrote those goofy comments. Its a bit ambiguous, but its seems to say that "the media" (without specifying what media) came up with the goofy comments to append to Schmidt's original dry scale (I think this may be another case where people exaggerate or misinterpret what an article is saying). I dont have any access to science journal databases, and am certainly no science or insect expert. But these concerns and quick scans of google books and google scholar led me to bring this issue to wiser heads. Thanks very much for checking this out. 88.109.1.60 16:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)