Talk:Insect
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Diversity --> figure with header \"Insects are extremely diverse. Five groups each have over 100,000 described species\" the word \"Bettles\" should be changed to \"Beetles\" Finaledylctvm (talk) 06:54, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:02, 12 December 2023..."> Diversity --> figure with header \"Insects are extremely diverse. Five groups each have over 100,000 described species\" the word \"Bettles\" should be changed to \"Beetles\" Finaledylctvm (talk) 06:54, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:02, 12 December 2023...">
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Under "insects and other bugs" --> Diversity --> figure with header "Insects are extremely diverse. Five groups each have over 100,000 described species" the word "Bettles" should be changed to "Beetles" Finaledylctvm (talk) 06:54, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:02, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
I feel we can still use File:Insect collage.png. We can either expand it with non-Neoptera insects or even replace two of them. LittleJerry (talk) 02:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Change "Woodlouse: a dozen legs,a dozen segments"
to "Woodlouse: seven pairs of legs,seven body segments" 50.173.91.21 (talk) 14:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
I started a discussion on this some months ago, see the thread above, but it seems to be being ignored by editors, so let's try again. The MOS indicates that the lead should have an image which gives an idea of the subject of the article. There is no call for the image to try to cover everything, and it's clearly impossible to do so in a large subject like this one. The body plan of an insect is however rather simple: 3-part body, 3 pairs of legs, appendages including antennae and mouthparts, and very often two pairs of wings. An image with an insect big enough to be intelligible and legible on a small screen, or in a thumbnail image, conveys this message clearly to readers; a composite image with a dozen or more micro-thumbnails crammed together may say "variety" but it also says "too small to see properly" to a large percentage of the audience. I'd say that a lead image should be exactly that: a single instance, big enough and clear enough to say just one thing: "insect". Scroll down in the article, and the physical diversity, the range of body plans for different habitats, the phylogenetic range, the various life-cycles, the different means of locomotion — diversity has many meanings for insects, and all are covered in the article: but they can't all be covered in the lead image, and nor should they be, it's at once impossible, unnecessary, and pointless to try. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)