Clean up descriptions for bees and flowers #34
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This reverts commit 80f9ab8.
Co-authored-by: Joe Walbran <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Utkarsh Kumar <[email protected]>
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In particular, I've decided to replace the words "femur", "tibia", and "basitarsus"/"basitarsis". I replaced "Femur" and "tibia" with "leg"; I replaced the phrase "tibia and basitarsus" with "lower leg". I know that isn't quite as specific, but it's probably more informative to students who may or may not know what a tibia is. (I had to look up what a tibia was just now! 🙃) I decided to keep "abdomen", since that's a familiar English word, and also "thorax", because I don't know of a good equivalent. (Possibly "torso"?) This commit also makes a few sentence structure changes. (Most of these are changes from the passive voice to the active voice; I also reworded one or two sentences for better flow.)
"Provisions" is a sufficiently obscure word that students probably wouldn't understand what it means. (In fact, I didn't understand what it meant until Paul googled it.) I still don't fully understand what this sentence means, so I don't think I could rewrite it to be more clear. It doesn't seem to be a critical piece of information, though, so I think we can just delete it. :)
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| "blooming_period": "--07-20/--10-31", | |||
| "description": { | |||
| "summary": "Solidago rigida, or stiff goldenrod, is an upright perennial with yellow or orange flowers. It is often used in sunny gardens, prairie plantings or restorations. Besides bees, the flowers attract a wide variety of flower-visiting insects. The Ojibwe traditionally used the root as an enema and took an infusion of the root to treat 'stoppage of urine.' The Meskwaki traditionally made the flowers into a lotion and used them on bee stings and for swollen faces.", | |||
| "summary": "Stiff goldenrod is an upright perennial with yellow or orange flowers. It is often used in sunny gardens, prairie plantings or restorations. Besides bees, the flowers attract a wide variety of flower-visiting insects. The Ojibwe traditionally used the root as an enema and took an infusion of the root to treat 'stoppage of urine.' The Meskwaki traditionally made the flowers into a lotion and used them on bee stings and for swollen faces.", | |||
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We should use double quotes rather than single quotes (and we should probably use the proper typographic opening and closing quotes.
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| "blooming_period": "--05-01/--10-31", | |||
| "description": { | |||
| "summary": "Trifolium repens, or white clover, is native from Europe to western Asia and into north Africa but has been introduced as a forage species for livestock throughout the world. Although it isn’t native to the area, it is often used for foraging by bees. White clover is often used by honey bees for nectar, which then makes clover honey. Some people are replacing their grass lawns with clover because it’s easier and cheaper to take care of. White clover has green stem and leaves with white flowering heads and flowers from May to October.", | |||
| "summary": "White clover is native from Europe to western Asia and into north Africa but has been introduced as a forage species for livestock throughout the world. Although it isn’t native to the area, it is often used for foraging by bees. White clover is often used by honey bees for nectar, which then makes clover honey. Some people are replacing their grass lawns with clover because it’s easier and cheaper to take care of. White clover has green stem and leaves with white flowering heads and flowers from May to October.", | |||
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Another instance of "Typesetter's apostrophe", see the comment further down on rationalizing these.
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| "summary": "Culver’s root is a perennial flower with tall stalks and small white flowers arranged in spikes. Individual flowers bloom for over a month, attracting bees, wasps, and soldier beetles. Culver’s root blooms from July to September and grows in woodland edge or prairie habitats.", | ||
| "bees_attracted": "Culver’s root commonly attracts these bees: Lasioglossum (small sweat bees), Hylaeus (yellow-faced bees), Halictus (sweat bees), Megachile (leafcutter bees), Melissodes (long-horned bees), and Bombus (bumble bees)." |
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Looks like we are using the "Typesetter's apostrophe" here (’) (U+2019) but we are using the regular "Typewriter apostrophe" in the actual name (') (U+0027). We should decide to use one of the two and make sure that change is applied everywhere. This probably happened due to copying from a word processor.
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