Talk:Lasioglossum hemichalceum

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This was a very well written article. There was nothing that was need dramatic fixing. I added hyperlinks for Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, eusocial, and haplodiploid. I rally like how you went in depth about kin selection.VAD2015 (talk) 22:52, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review

Overall, I thought this article was well balanced in terms of the facts you researched and how the information was presented. The behavior and kin selection sections were very strong, and the genetic relatedness subsection was particularly thorough. Great job! This article is very complete, and there aren’t many areas to critique. The only suggestion I can think of is to cut down on the information in the introduction as it repeated later in the article. The relationship between the size of the colony and the reproductive potential is a great way to catch the reader’s attention and fits well in the introduction however! This article is also well referenced, and the references are placed numerously and appropriately.

I edited several aspects of the article, including grammar, spelling, organization, and structure, and content. I added a picture of the range of where the species are commonly found from Discover Life.

I fixed some spelling and grammar, such as capitalizing the species names that you list in the taxonomy and phylogeny section. This article was fairly thorough in terms of spelling and grammar, and thus I did not make many corrections. Further, the full name “Lasioglossum hemichalceum” was used throughout the article, but it is also appropriate to use the shortened version “L. hemichalceum” so I substituted this when possible.

Structurally, I added the name of the person who discovered the species and the year of discovery in parenthesis right after the first mention of the species. I also went through and added a lot of hyperlinks to important words and phrases, in case the reader wants to learn more about certain topics. Kevin.george1 (talk) 04:42, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Great job with this article on Lasioglossum hemichalceum. I thought it was well balanced with its information and very thorough in each section. I made a very minor change in the section on Agonistic Behavior, changing "Aggressive behavior" to "Agonistic behavior" as to keep in style with the rest of that section as this was the only place aggressive was used in the place of agonistic when the two terms are rather synonymous. I think it would be great to add in the future a section on interspecies interactions, such as common predators or parasites and how this species responds to predation. Wdsieling (talk) 23;50, 2 October 2015 (UTC)