Talk:Gonimbrasia belina

message: After rewriting and expanding the article, I'd like to peer review it to give it some additional substance before nominating it as a featured article.
Ssteedman 11:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Hi, I've added some info on how to prepare mopane worms. Of course, I can't reference this as it's not the sort of thing anyone ever writes about... It's not even original research, just everyday stuff I know from living in Botswana and liking mopane worms. Please don't get hung up on referencing in such circumstances: we don't insist on referencing every last statement about, say, the US or Germany.
I'm saying this because articles written largely from academic sources do seem to attract reffing comments about anything from more prosaic sources. Stuff can be academic for the Highly Connected World, but mundane, unwritten-about, common knowledge in the rest of the universe...JackyR 15:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  the bugbear of referencing 

message: Things to work on:
#Names: get better info on names and name of mopane tree in Sets. (JR will do)
#Better info on cooking. Done 
#Find names of other economically important insects (prob crickets), and lk. Might not be food insects (eg silk worm) so unless anyone interested I won't pursue this.
JackyR 15:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review

message: Changed non-word substinence to subsistence, same with link to entry on subsistence farming.  Not sure if link text was intended to be sustenance ...  (johndburger John 19:21, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Substinence vs subsistence vs sustenance 

message: Stuart, just a heads-up that you may need to dig out your source of permission for that pic from Arne Larson. I don't know much about this, but I've often seen discussions where folk have posted emails of permission from a photographer. You're probably far more knowledgeable on this than me, but WP:COPY may be helpful... Cheers, JackyR 18:23, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You raise a good point!  I think I'll get onto that.  Also found some good books to use under a new heading, Further Reading.
Stuart Steedman 08:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pics 

message: It's terribly ugly having the "Names" at the top, but I can't think where else to put them. If you can, or can lay this out better, please do... Still slogging at this. Will do more anon. JackyR 00:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ugly 

message: Hi, I've been talking to User:Olei, mostly at WikiCommons about this article. He's coming at the article from a scientific point of view, and strongly suggests we should put it under Emperor moth (but there's already an article there, about Pavonia pavonia). This seems to be practice for lepidoptera articles and might affect the FA bid. I'm not convinced it's the right solution, however, as the caterpillar is so much more significant to humans than the butterfly that (by the sounds of the literature) most people wouldn't recognise the butterfly if it landed on them. Also, as Olei says, he is coming from a European perspective: "Emperor moth" is a British name that is almost never used - most Brits never see a mopane moth/caterpillar, and Africans (of any colour) refer to it by local names even when speaking English -as I'm sure you know! (Personally I've always called it phane or macimbi, depending where I was.) JackyR 16:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, ignore the bit about emperor moths. I've just had an enlightening email from the specialist to whom Olei referred me, the relevant parts of which I shall include with his permission (awaited). JackyR 16:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caterpillar vs butterfly 

message: I propose moving this page to Gonimbrasia belina, with a redirect from mopane worm, obviously. This is per Dr Naessig's comments above, and also because in fact this creature has more than one name in English, all names being loan words from languages local to the beastie. Comments? JackyR 14:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh absolutely. It's the species, not the stage of development. Oh dear, does this mean I have to pull my finger out and actually do it? ;-) JackyR 12:44, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed page move 

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message: What do they taste like?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.138.89.132 (talk) 07:05, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  taste