Talk:Scaptotrigona mexicana

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Paanur (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Allykunze, Khan.nadia, Claire.packer.

General Feedback

Great article overall! I corrected the typos that I saw and a few grammatical/sentence structure issues. I have a few further suggestions: I would explain what it mean for the males to be haploid and how it effects sex ratios. I would also define physiogastric, that is not a commonly known term. The thing that I was most confused by was the section about drones. Aren't drones just male bees? How are they formed? I would make sure to clarify this and fact check. Another question I had was how within species communication decreases competition, I would try and go over this a little more. Also, it seems as though you are missing citations in some places, make sure that every fact has a citation! Other than those concepts this was a well written and well researched article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claire.packer (talk • contribs) 00:59, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Comments

I thought that the male subsection could be deleted completely, so I removed this from the entry. I also italicized the times the species was mentioned throughout the article. Further, I took out some of the spaces between paragraphs within sections that I found unnecessary. There were times that S. mexicana was written as S.mexicana, so I edited this. I made several additions or deletions in the wording of sections of the article, as well. Under mating selection, there was a weird issue with a reference, but I was unsure what was supposed to be cited so I did not make any alterations, but this should be fixed. I thought that the entry was pretty complete as far as content, but probably could have used more information under queen and worker characteristics, and perhaps the environmental adaptations section could have information about conservation as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allykunze (talk • contribs) 17:51, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review

This article provided a lot of great information and is overall a really good entry! I fixed the minor grammatical errors that I found throughout the page. Also, I added a separate "Colony Cycle" section to cover your subsections pertaining to colony. I moved the "Environmental Adaptations" subsection to the "Distribution and Habitat" section, as I though it fit better there since it was talking about the geography and habitat. One thing I was confused about in the article was the mention of drones and the drone section. I thought drones were just male bees and that seemed to be the case in some parts of the article, but in the "drones" section, a drone seemed to be like a nest or a swarm that the bees form. I think it would be helpful if you defined what a drone is and see if the word is implying two different meanings depending on the circumstance. I found it interesting how important the specie's honey is for medicinal use. I thought the layout of the page flowed pretty well and was nicely organized. Nice work! Khan.nadia (talk) 03:45, 23 October 2015 (UTC)