User:Julia W/Navel gazing

Creation

• Costus curvibracteatus—thirty-first DYK
• Holly Smale
• Eutricha capensis—twenty-ninth DYK
• Sphecodopsis—twenty-seventh DYK
• Scelophysa trimeni—twenty-fifth DYK
• Psathyrella ammophila—twenty-fourth DYK
• Palais Saint-Georges—twenty-third DYK
• Nemesia cheiranthus
• Saint Paulin Church—sixteenth DYK
• Church of Saint Ildefonso—fifteenth DYK
• Aneilema aequinoctiale—fourteenth DYK
• Ursus C-45
• Elaine M Goodwin—eleventh DYK
• Simon Radley—seventh DYK
• Chester Grosvenor and Spa—sixth DYK
• Tomb of Hafez—fifth DYK
• Abantiades latipennis—fourth DYK
• Carola Roloff—third DYK
• Claire Curran—now a full article, but I only got it to a decent stub
• Lauren Albanese—stub
• Piotr Tomaszewski—my first article

Article expansion and rescue

• Heliophila—thirtieth DYK
• Albanian water frog—twenty-eighth DYK
• Kuremaa—twenty-sixth DYK
• Großbottwar—twenty-second DYK
• Bolinus cornutus—twenty-first DYK
• Colpophyllia natans—twentieth DYK
• Ebbe Nielsen—nineteenth DYK
• Pollanisus nielseni—eighteenth DYK
• Senostoma—seventeenth DYK
• Vexi Salmi—thirteenth DYK. Jafeluv did a lot of work with Finnish references to help me expand this.
• Erlebnispark Tripsdrill—twelfth DYK
• Rock Creek Canyon Bridge—tenth DYK
• Myrmecia esuriens—ninth DYK
• Swaledale (sheep)—eighth DYK
• Kothduwa temple—worked on with Paxse; second DYK
• List of female tennis players—with some assistance from Tennis expert, took the article from a sparse and not-very-useful list to a mammoth table.
• Battle of Crogen—first DYK.
• Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup—from these three lines to this referenced stub. Almost four months later, someone who actually knows Norwegian came along and improved it even further.

DYKs

Did you know . . .

no	date	article	hook	picture
31	12 August 2015	Costus curvibracteatus	... that the orange tulip ginger is not a citrus fruit, nor a tulip, nor a spice?
30	13 February 2014	Heliophila	... that molecular phylogenetics led to six genera of Brassicaceae resolving into the southern Africa genus Heliophila?
29	14 November 2013	Eutricha capensis	... that caterpillars of the Cape lappet moth (pictured) are described as "gregarious" because they clump together in great numbers for unknown reasons?
28	27 September 2013	Albanian water frog	... that populations of the endangered Albanian water frog (pictured) are declining due to over-collection for the food industry and pet trade?
27	24 February 2013	Sphecodopsis	... that after hatching, Sphecodopsis cuckoo bee larvae use their long sickle-shaped mandibles to destroy any other eggs or larvae around them?
26	4 October 2012	Kuremaa	... that Arthur von Oettingen and his family lost their farm and family home in Kuremaa when Estonia expropriated all land from the Baltic nobility in 1919?
25	16 August 2012	Scelophysa trimeni	... that blue monkey beetles (pictured) both feed and mate in the dark centres of unscented flowers?
24	7 August 2012	Psathyrella ammophila	... that the dune brittlestem (pictured) has a symbiotic relationship with marram grass?
23	3 May 2012	Saint George Palace	... that French revolutionary forces in Rennes evicted almost forty nuns from their abbey residence, the Palais Saint-Georges (pictured), and used the building as a barracks?
22	10 January 2011	Großbottwar	... that a wooden stork on the façade of the Rathaus (pictured) in the German town of Großbottwar nods its head when the town hall clock strikes the hour?
21	5 January 2011	Bolinus cornutus	... that a Tyrian purple dye can be extracted from the West African Horned Murex sea snail (shell pictured)?
20	19 November 2010	Colpophyllia natans	... that some stony corals, such as the aptly named boulder brain corals (pictured), resemble over-sized cerebra?
19	1 November 2010	Pollanisus nielseni	... that Pollanisus nielseni, a moth of Western Australia with brilliantly shiny wings, was given its species name in 2005 as a tribute to Ebbe Nielsen, a noted Danish entomologist?
18	1 November 2010	Ebbe Nielsen	... that Pollanisus nielseni, a moth of Western Australia with brilliantly shiny wings, was given its species name in 2005 as a tribute to Ebbe Nielsen, a noted Danish entomologist?
17	11 September 2010	Senostoma	... that members of Senostoma (pictured) kill their hosts when ready to emerge?
16	13 June 2010	Saint Paulin Church	. . . that the crypt of St. Paulinskirche (pictured) in Trier allegedly contains the remains of approximately one dozen of the martyred soldiers of the legendary Theban Legion?
15	29 March 2010	Church of Saint Ildefonso	. . . that the façade of the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso (pictured) in Porto, Portugal, is covered in approximately 11,000 azulejos?
14	20 March 2010	Aneilema aequinoctiale	. . . that chimpanzees in the wild may self-medicate by swallowing the leaves of Aneilema aequinoctiale (pictured) whole, in order to rid their intestines of parasitic nematodes?
13	15 March 2010	Vexi Salmi	. . . that from 1965 to present, Finnish lyricist Vexi Salmi (pictured) has written over 4000 song lyrics, more than 2400 of which have been recorded?
12	02 March 2010	Erlebnispark Tripsdrill	. . . that German extreme in-line skater Dirk Auer roller skated down a large wooden roller coaster (pictured) at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, reaching speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)?
11	19 September 2009	Elaine M Goodwin	. . . that when British mosaicist Elaine M Goodwin and three fellow artists founded an exhibiting group in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word "mosaic" due to its negative perception in the art world?
10	31 August 2009	Rock Creek Canyon Bridge	. . . that when the narrow Rock Creek Canyon Bridge (pictured) in British Columbia was widened and strengthened in 1992, the works were carried out while keeping one lane open to traffic?
9	26 August 2009	Myrmecia esuriens	. . . that William Anderson, a surgeon and naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution, wrote in 1777 that the Tasmanian Inchman (pictured) had an "almost intolerable" bite?
8	26 July 2009	Swaledale (sheep)	. . . that the possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales (pictured), a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria?
7	14 July 2009	Simon Radley	. . . that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa, overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009?
6	14 July 2009	Chester Grosvenor and Spa	. . . that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa (pictured), overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009?
5	19 June 2009	Tomb of Hafez	. . . that a shrine in Shiraz over the tomb (pictured) of the famed Persian poet Hafez was pulled down in 1899 by protesters, because it was being built by a Zoroastrian?
4	10 June 2009	Abantiades latipennis	. . . that the Australian moth Abantiades latipennis (pictured) is well-adapted to surviving clearfelling and thrives in regrowth forests?
3	8 May 2009	Carola Roloff	. . . that Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff, means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan?
2	8 May 2009	Kothduwa temple	. . . that the site of Kothduwa temple is reputed to be one of the places where the Buddha’s tooth was hidden when it was brought to Sri Lanka (tooth smuggling pictured)?
1	2 January 2009	Battle of Crogen	. . . that Owain Gwynedd led Welsh forces to victory against King Henry II of England at the Battle of Crogen in 1165?