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User talk:Happy1892Welcome!  Welcome to Wikipedia, Happy1892! Thank you for your contributions. I am StewartNetAddict and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type
Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! StewartNetAddict (talk) 15:30, 25 January 2012 (UTC) About the Chinese MantisHello. You added that "Compared to many other species of mantis, they are even-tempered and seem to get along well with humans." to the Captivity on the Chinese Mantis page. Does even-tempered mean not aggressive towards humans? Chinese Mantids vary a lot. Adult females and adult males are very different. I do not think people would call an adult male Chinese Mantis even-tempered because just about all of them seem to be skittish. Some males are aggressive (I mean they attack instead of run) but still those (the ones I had) were skittish so I would say males are skittish like most kinds of mantids (I mean the adult males of those). There is not that much known about mantids. Most adult female Chinese Mantids seem to be calm but they can easily get aggressive and many mantids are like this. There are many adult female Chinese Mantids that are very different in that they are very skittish or aggressive. Older nymphs that are wild caught seem to always be skittish. Wild adult males seem to usually be more skittish than males that have been raised as a pet. There is a lot more about this in the way they vary but I will be a lot of writing so. What do you want to say? Write on the bottom of this "About the Chinese Mantis". Happy1892 (talk) 02:40, 14 December 2012 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 02:40, 14 December 2012 (UTC) August 2012
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Oh, okay. Thank you. Happy1892 (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC) Happy New YearHi Happy1892, and welcome back. Just to say, I had to edit a caption just now, so that it is purely factual. If we don't know something, that's up to us, not the encyclopedia, which depends on verifiable facts, worse luck! All the best, and Happy New Year, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:03, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
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It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:54, 21 March 2014 (UTC) Roach resourcesThanks AlanM1! -Happy1892 October 9th 2021 Howdy, glad to see your contributions to the cockroach articles! I'm not an expert, but have created and edited a few cockroach articles. I'm not sure how much you know, so some of this might be stuff you're already familiar with, but I thought I'd share a few tips: There are two good books which are available in PDF form online. I am not sure that they're supposed to be, so I'd link to their books.google preview versions rather than the PDF files, but it's useful to download the PDFs so you can read and search the entire text of the books. Neither book covers species the way a comprehensive catalog would, but Bell in particular covers a broad variety of topics related to cockroaches, with many miscellaneous references to various species, which are sometimes of use.
Three websites I often cite in articles on cockroach species:
Tips on googling:
Tip on citations:
I noticed in an article that you were repeating entire citations in the article. After you enter a citation once, with a prefix of Let me know if you have any questions; I'll check back here. Best regards, Agyle (talk) 04:33, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Cool mystery! The pros had a hard time with some of these too; Parcoblatta divisa was considered a subspecies of Parcoblatta pensylvanica for at least a couple decades – the 1920 article still refers to it as P. pensylvanica divisa. The early parco scientists also wrote of having an easier time catching males...apparently they'd catch males relatively easily at night due to their attraction to light, and for females they suggested using molasses as bait. (I don't recall which species they were talking about, but it was some sort of parco(s)). I think most descriptions that differentiate species discuss observations of adults, so some patience may be required, though some details may be similar enough in nymphs. Descriptions also usually describe the egg cases, so it's worth paying attention to those when they arrive. Some bug freak wrote a whole journal article about Parcoblatta uhleriana's egg case...I couldn't understand the descriptions until I saw you had included a photo of its egg case. (Close-ups of oothecae would be nice additions to any species article...they are sometimes quite differentiating). One more source for finding assorted old information about a particular species is the Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org), for example here is their page on divisa. If you click on the document icon in the right-hand column you get a preview of one scanned page, if you click on a page # link it takes you to a document browser with the whole document. Basically they scanned a bunch of old biology documents they were able to get rights to (several groups gave them permission, including the American Entomological Society), then cross-referenced them when they found a species name on a page, so each species they find has a list of documents associated with it. Their uhleriana page has a lot more links, and I used several of them to beef up the uhleriana Wikipedia article. Agyle (talk) 21:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC) Yes. I do not think the fact that P. divisa and P. pennsylvanica were similar in size was much of a reason for thinking they are a different species. I have closer-up pictures of Parcoblatta uhleriana oothecae. I will put them on the Parcoblatta uhleriana page. Haha, that is very funny that you said "some bug freak". I am wondering about Parcoblatta caudelli and that the entomologists might have misidentified females of the species around here in north of Raleigh that looks similar to P. fulvescens as Parcoblatta fulvescens. I wonder if those Parcoblatta north of Raleigh that look similar to P. fulvescens are Parcoblatta caudelli, but females have short wings. The adult males and females look similar to P. fulvescens. They are smaller than P. uhleriana but they are similar in size to P. uhleriana. The guy in Alabama has caught P. fulvescens and his P. fulvescens are slightly smaller than P. uhleriana, not larger. The Parcoblatta that look similar to P. fulvescens here in north of Raleigh are very common in pine needles with white fungus during the late summer and are the most common male Parcoblatta at lights (and females I have seen a few times around lawns during the night) and the second common male Parcoblatta at lights are P. uhleriana. It is weird that in "Orthoptera of northeastern America" he says that P. caudelli are small and females are full winged and that P. fulvescens males are similar to P. uhleriana males because they are totally different in looks. I think the Parcoblatta caudelli they are talking about in this article are the same roaches as the ones I have caught here north of Raleigh. I have not seen a P. fulvescens male here, but I could have mistaken a female for one of those common P. fulvescens like ones that could be P. caudelli. Here are pictures of the Parcoblatta that could be Parcoblatta caudelli. Happy1892 (talk) 22:46, 25 March 2014 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 22:46, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
I found a recent key to differentiating Parcoblattas, based on the earlier Blatchley 1920 work, which may be clearer, although I think it only covers parcos found in Florida. It's a PDF file found here. I agree the divisa/pensylvanica thing was weird. I gather from a 1925 piece that other entomologists thought Blatchley's 1920 use of pensylvanica divisa was off-base. I noticed Blatchley is the authority for a 1903 synonym of uhleriana. I wonder if he was bitter about Hebard and others getting credit for everything...many of those entomologists seemed to use veiled or not-so-veiled insults in their articles; they'd have loved internet forums! You could be right about mistakes being made. I read short article today, from the biodiversity library archive, that was just one guy correcting a bunch of different parcoblatta misidentifications made by other scientists in prior studies. It was from many decades ago, and presumably basic errors of earlier descriptions have been corrected to yield stable current descriptions, but it does make clear that the identifications can be tricky. I added an external link to Parcoblatta divisa linking to a drawing of two females, one with normal wings, and one with ridiculously long wings...those sorts of variations could throw anyone for a loop. There's also a single county in Florida where the divisas are pale instead of dark, and subpopulations of fulvescens in different parts of Kansas where one a dark olive gray/brown, and the other is a light golden brown or tan. Agyle (talk) 23:57, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
 The picture of five nymphs and one adult of Lobster Roaches (Nauphoeta cinerea) in the first page of this look similar to Rhyparobia and different from Nauphoeta cinerea, but you may already know that. Happy1892 (talk) 19:49, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 19:49, 27 March 2014 (UTC) P fulvescens sounds likely. P caudelli females have full wings, and are probably capable of flying. I updated Parcoblatta fulvescens with an external link to two drawings of females, and added information on similar-looking species. Hebard said the female could only be confused with Parcoblatta virginica and Parcoblatta lata. I think he meant they're the only parcos with such short wings that are close together (uhl's are widely spaced). P. lata is a lot bigger so can probably be ruled out just with a ruler, and virginica is a bit smaller, possibly differentiable with a ruler, though with a small fulvescens or big virginica you might need to consider other criteria. I think Hebard's Raleigh-area fulvescens were among the larger fulve specimens he included in his description. He seemed to have a lot of specimens to work with by 1917, so those size ranges (repeated by Blatchley 1920 and included in the Wikipedia articles) should be pretty accurate. I revised my earlier entries in the parco articles to put measurements in tables, for easier reading/comparison. If that is a fulvescens, and you have male fulvescens as well, distinguishing them from uhleriana sounds like a good challenge. :-) Several entomologists screwed this up for a couple decades early on, and people were still trying to sort out their mistakes in the 1960s. You have a point about the lobster roaches. I wouldn't have recognized it or Rhyparobia, and it's hard to imagine pros wouldn't catch the error, but a google image search does plant some doubt! Agyle (talk) 02:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC) I have not caught P. caudelli females with the long wings. In this article it says that the P. caudelli were common in Raleigh. Here is the person from Alabama showing his P. fulvescens. The wings look more narrow and pointy at the tip ends than a male P. uhleriana. The male P. fulvescens have a white margin on their pronotum and sides of their wings while the P. uhleriana do not. Actually P. uhleriana males have lighter margins on the wings and pronotum than the rest of the body, so it might not be contrasted enough to really tell the difference between P. uhleriana and P. fulvescens. On the Parcoblatta lata page it says that males are 17.5 to 20.5mm long and females are 15.7 to 20mm long. That seems kind of small for males because my P. uhleriana males were about 21mm long and the males of the unknown species with the four dots on their median segment were about 20mm long (they did not have much variation in length). I will measure my male P. lata when they become adults. Happy1892 (talk) 18:22, 28 March 2014 (UTC)Happy1892Happy1892 (talk) 18:22, 28 March 2014 (UTC) The black roaches were actually Parcoblatta pennsylvanica. I checked the median segment on one male and it was like P. pennsylvanica. I just noticed that on the Parcoblatta lata page it was body length of the adult males that was about 17.5 to 21.5mm long which does not include the wings. I measured the wings included for two male P. lata and they were 25mm long. I measured an adult male P . virginica and P. caudelli, the P. virginica 14mm long and P. caudelli about 18mm long including the wings. When they say body do they include the pronotum and head? Here are some pictures.
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