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Automeris io, moth with deflection markins cf Owl eyes.

The eyespots of Automeris io

Sexual dimorphism and strictly nocturnal. Have vestigial mouthparts, and do not eat in their adult form, typical of Saturniid moths.

Mice and bumblebees

Charles Darwin worked out an interesting example where the number of bumblebees depended on the number of mice:

"Humble-bees are indispensable to the fertilisation of the heartsease (Viola tricolor) [and] humble-bees alone visit the red clover (Trifolium pratense). The number of bumblebees in any district depends on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests... Now the number of mice is largely dependent.. on the number of cats. Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine... the frequency of certain flowers in that district". Darwin, Charles; Costa, James T. 2009. The Annotated Origin: a facsimile of the first edition of On the Origin of Species annotated by James T. Costa. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Belknap Press of Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-674-03281-1 p73/74

title thoughts

This is the basic English wiki guideline on the subject: [1]. It's the default for us, too. Also the position also fits the general English language practice. I hope I have time to do more. I see "Halley's comet" as standard, and so does New Oxford dictionary for scientific writers and editors, but I have to admit En wiki voted down the attempt to move its Halley's Comet page. No-one there thought of saying that the phrase is just a contraction of "The comet of Halley", which puts it in a different light. As for "Meteor Crater", there is absolutely no way 'crater', clearly a common noun, should be capitalised.