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Apitherapy

Hi guys, I'm Javier Waase currently a student in Radford University. I have been assigned for one of my classes the order Hymenoptera and one of our assignments is to find things to edit or contribute on the order's wikipedia page. As you all may know, Hymenoptera is a huge order so I am focusing on a specific species within it. Bees. I have been reading several articles on the potential for bee's venom to have significant medicinal contributions for humans and though it would be a good section to add to the page. Below is what I have written so far on the subject and the articles I have gotten my information from.

"Apitherapy is the use of honeybee products for medicinal purposes, this includes, honey, pollen, beeswax and surprisingly, bee venom. The most common way to medically administer bee venom is by using small doses on acupuncture needles. This treatment is mostly used on patients suffering from inflammatory disorders such as arthritis, tendinitis and Lyme disease (1). Also, bee venom has shown to have neuro-protective and neuro-modulating chemicals that may have a key insight into new treatments for certain neurodegenerative disorders. Their venom could help treat diseases such as Parkinson, Alzheimer’s, and ALS among others (2). "

Before you get too far into this, be aware there is an article on Apitherapy already. Perhaps you could check and improve that article first, using the above materials if they aren't already there. Then you could make a summary of the revised article (new parts and old), with (some of) the same references, for this (Bee) article, placing "{{main|Apitherapy}}" (without the quotes or nowiki tags) at the start of your summary section (inside the Bees and humans section, where I guess it could make the final subsection). You might also note that we use straight quotes (') not angled quotes or apostrophes (’). Finally, some terms such as disease names should be wikilinked. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:02, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose that Specialization in bees be merged into Bee. Basically, it's a misguided fork (split) as bees have a wide range of specializations essential to their ways of life, from nectar-lapping mouthparts to pollen baskets, not to mention 'castes' with specialized queens and workers in some species. Therefore, the separate article is trying to cover core elements of the existing Bee article, and it can only duplicate what is here, or find newly-researched facts that would better be here. There are already subsidiary articles on some of the major specializations, such as pollen basket: these provide narrow, detailed coverage that would not comfortably fit into the parent article. An article that purports to cover all the different specializations must summarize these subsidiary articles, yet their parent, Bee, already exists, so duplication is the inevitable result: in other words, we have a WP:FORK. A merge of any new content is therefore the right answer.

The content in the Specialization article can easily fit into Bee. Since it covers a range of fundamental Bee topics it belongs here. Given there is not much new content and substantial overlap (duplication), merging will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:41, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

• Support. Note that Worker bee also contains a whole list of bee jobs to which Specialization in bees could be merged. - HyperGaruda (talk) 08:07, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Done the basic merge; will look at Worker bee also. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:19, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Conservation status

I've been reading a lot of news about bees being in danger because of the chemicals used on the crop, it would be really helpful to add some verified info about the conservation status of the bees. I'm not really sure where I could get that info, but if someone knows about it I would really appreciate that.

Thanks, El Hoy (talk) 12:41, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Learning unnatural tricks

Can't edit the article.

"But that two bees figured out how to pull the string with no help and further, that other bees could pick up on that ability was “most impressive,”

--BowlAndSpoon.science (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Eusociality section

So many things have gone awry in this section, with references deleted, spellings changed ignoring the existing language setting, and materials left uncited, that I've reverted to the last known good version. We may be able to use some of the new materials, but they'll need to be added in more carefully. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

• I've got to go see you later ok but dont forget to take out the trash