Talk:Schwarziana quadripunctata

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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): Cratermann (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Cmbakwe, Raymundo.marcelo.

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There is a lot of great information here, it was very well written, and there was a lot of good research done. I helped make some hyperlinks actually go to the useful pages like Amédéé Louis Michel le Peletier. I also got rid of extra hyperlinks like with Brazil, Argentina, Africanized honeybees, and hydrocarbons and added some hyperlinks especially in the Diet section. I would also add a link citing where it says that the decline of S. quadripunctata will continue into the future (under Distribution and Habitat). Under the titles Behavior and Kin Selection, I would add a summary or overview of the entire section to help the reader better grasp what they will read. I also made some areas clearer like “(both queen, dwarf, and worker)” to “(queen, dwarf, or worker)”. Overall though, it is a well-done article needing only minor tweaks. Raymundo.marcelo (talk) 21:52, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The information provided in this article for each section shows a great balance among the material on Schwarziana quadripunctata in general and the language was coherent and organized. For corrections, I added hyperlinks to some terms, such as "eusocial", "thorax", "ecological niche", and "larvae" so that references to outside information can be made. I also removed extra hyperlinks to the same terminology that appeared throughout the article; since one hyperlink was already made, it is redundant to include extra hyperlinks. With respect to grammatical errors, I changed “of” to “from” in the first paragraph when describing the size of the bee since a range of sizes is included. I also added “and” between “size” and “weight” in the first paragraph of “Description of Identification.” To increase behavioral content in the article, it would be beneficial to add more information on inter-species interactions; specifically, more research on the parasites and predators of Schwarziana quadripunctata could be conducted to add to the enriching material presented. In general, though, this article is very good! Cmbakwe (talk) 04:00, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great job with a really thorough and balanced article on Schwarziana quadripunctata. Many of the minor adjustments were already done, I think further things that could be added to this article would be around interspecies interactions; about predation, and perhaps how stingless bees behave differently against predation compared to bees/wasps with stingers. In the Description and Identification section, I added the sentence "Colonies contain a larger queen with greater fecundity than dwarf queens, causing the size discrepancy between the two," to differentiate queens and dwarf queens earlier in the article. User:Wdsieling (talk) 23:30, 1 October 2015