Talk:Aglais io

Sections

Take that long paragraph apart and put it into sections and it will be B material. -- IvanTortuga 05:31, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Peacock

Why is this article not named "Peacock (butterfly) (which redirects here)"? If one looks at the category "British Butterflies", there are the "Painted Lady", the "Red Admiral" etc but there is no "Peacock". In the "List of British Butterflies" it is listed under "Peacock" with "Inachis io" as a qualifier, so why not here? Surely there should be consistency in naming. --78.54.116.199 (talk) 10:23, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Part of the image gallery reinstated

User:Stemonitis removed the image gallery claiming it to be "per WP:IG".
To most lay people, the looks of a butterfly (and its caterpillar) is "what it's all about"!
Hence an image gallery, here, definitely (quoting WP:IG): "illustrate[s] aspects of [the] subject that cannot be easily or adequately described by text or individual images".
And therefore I have put part of the gallery back into the article.
--Seren-dipper (talk) 19:44, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

On the contrary, I see no reason why this can't this be illustrated "by single images". I deliberately left in a picture of caterpillars for precisely that reason – it illustrated something mentioned in the article but otherwise hard to convery. Your reinstated gallery is still just a gallery, and still contravenes WP:IG. Another picture of a caterpillar adds little; a sequence of images of pupation is interesting, but cannot be understood at thumbnail resolution. We have a link to the Commons page, so we don't need ot show every interesting image. A reader who is interested in looking at varied images can click on the Commons link. --Stemonitis (talk) 08:07, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

User Stemonitis is right. Please use images very selectively. Each image must have encyclopaedic value. The solution to the issue, User:Seren-dipper is not to argue but to create meaningful galleries. AshLin (talk) 11:56, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Inachis io Lill-Jansskogen.JPG to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Inachis io Lill-Jansskogen.JPG will be appearing as picture of the day on March 10, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-03-10. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! —howcheng {chat} 07:59, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the day

The Peacock butterfly (Inachis io) is a widespread butterfly species, found in Europe and temperate Asia, as far east as Japan. It has a wingspan of 50–55 mm (2.0–2.2 in). The base-colour of the wings is a rusty red, and at each wingtip it bears a distinctive eyespot, which has been much studied for its role as an anti-predator mechanism.Photo: Korall

Moved to Aglais io from Inachis io

Grmanners has moved this page to Aglais io from Inachis io. Most the the references in the article refer to Inachis io, including the Commons and Wikispecies pages. No references were provided nor was concensus obtained. Marku Savela's site calls it Nymphalis io while its original name was Papilio io. I have been unable to find its entry in Lepindex. Very confusing. What is the accepted name of this species, and genus for that matter? Dger (talk) 01:44, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Patience, friend. As I wrote on your Talk page, the European and UK butterfly organizations have adopted this change and I'll provide a reference or two as soon as I can. As an interim, see: www.butterfly-conservation.org/Butterfly/32/Butterfly.html?ButterflyId=11 —GRM (talk) 17:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Its entry in Lepindex is Nymphalis io. It was also for a time in the genus Vanessa. Still no concensus or strong support for Aglais io. Dger (talk) 20:49, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

please see the Nymphalidae Systematics Group pages, specifically The higher classification of Nymphalidae by Nicklas Wahlberg for up to date classification of all Nymphalidae (there have been a lot of changes in the last few years). It appears that io should be placed in the genus Aglais for now. HKmoths (talk) 03:15, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

If this is the current status let's move it to Aglais io and fix all the associated links. Dger (talk) 16:45, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

If the advice is to re-move this species to Aglais io, who's responsibility is it to do. I am justifiably reluctant to do it again myself!—GRM (talk) 21:14, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

• I made the move and edited Aglais as well. Dger (talk) 20:55, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Added a new section on anti-predator defense mechanisms

Hi guys, I just added a well-referenced and researched section on the defense mechanisms of the butterfly. I think it is a valuable contribution to the page, as there was not really any detailed discussion of the butterfly's predator-prey interactions. Solon5g93 (talk) 18:53, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Fixed heading titles and added subheadings

I added sub-headings to my section to make it easier to read. In addition, I fixed the titling of the two headings under the Behavior section to line them up with Wikipedia's standard of style. Solon5g93 (talk) 01:57, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

How is it that the caterpillars do not get stung by the stinging nettle? Why mainly eat this plant?

Why do the caterpillars not need to drink? Do they get all their water from the leaves they eat?

Do they need to sleep? Sometimes they are very still and cluster together in groups on the plant.

They always try to get to the highest point on a plant. Why is this? Most of the time they eat, but sometimes they race around as fast as they can with no discernible goal.

What are the spines on the caterpillars for? Are they defense? If picked up, the caterpillar shoots a liquid out. Is this poison? Otherwise they freeze when nearby vibrations or sound disturb them. Is this to hide from predators like birds?

Much info is missing about the caterpillars rather than the butterfly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.226.118 (talk) 21:38, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

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The Peacock Butterfly is one of the inspirations for the movie monster Mothra along with the atlas moth!!!