Talk:Anthidium manicatum

A fact from Anthidium manicatum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 December 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the bee Anthidium manicatum (pictured) scrapes fur from leaves to line its nest?

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I'll be back to fix it up. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:17, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review

I would recommend adding more to the taxonomy and phylogeny section. It’s a little short and makes the page look a little unbalanced. Maybe add more about the family megachilidae? I was confused by the sentence in behavior “As such…” It seemed repetitive, but I didn’t want to delete it since I wasn’t sure what it was trying to convey. I really liked the photos. I thought they worked well with the various sections where you put them. I would like to learn more about the colony cycle of this bee. Overall great article! Courtney.cleveland (talk) 15:35, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Comments

This article was easy to read and understand, as well as aesthetically pleasing. There are few recommendations/changes I would make to improve the article however. First, the following sentence under the section “Distribution and Habitiat” has two citations at the end of the sentence, in the following fashion: “Anthidium manicatum is found in parts of Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America. It has also recently been documented in the Canary Islands, and South American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, andUruguay.[10][11]” I would separate these citations and imbed them within the sentence so that readers are able to tell where the individual facts came from. I linked the words “trichomes,” “Lamiaceae,” “stachys,” and “crepis” to their respective Wikipedia pages so that readers are able to understand which plants the A. manicatum forages from, and what it gathers. The following sentence under the section “Resource Defense” is ambiguous due to the usage of “them”: “If females forage in sites that are being defended by males and the cost of additional matings is low for them, then male resource defense and female polyandry may coevolve.[1]” Proper pronoun usage involves clear and concise usage to prevent ambiguity in the subject, thus, I would change “them” to “female members” so that it is clear to the reader that the cost of additional matings is low for females, not males. I also recommend adding a world map so that users can better understand where this bee is endemic. The final edits I made was linking the word “heterospecific” to its Wikipedia page.Mmc7777 (talk) 16:25, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review 2

I enjoyed the variety of pictures embedded throughout the article, especially because they enhanced understanding of the physical characteristics and behaviors of Anthidium manicatum. The information included was also interesting to read. Concerning changes, I removed some unnecessary commas, an extra hyperlink on Stachys byzantine, and repetitive/redundant phrases to make the language clearer and concise. For example, you wrote in one sentence that "...female A. manicatum mate repeatedly, not just once" which seems circular; thus I removed "not just once", which makes the statement more direct. I also changed "sexual size dimorphism" to "sexual dimorphism" in the both the heading on the subjection and its discussion in the following paragraph. I also included a link to this term so that readers can learn more about this phenomenon if they are interested. Concerning the organization of the article, I grouped all paragraphs discussing "Mating behavior" together as well as discussions on body size under "Sexual Dimorphism." Finally, I included a missing citation/reference for the following sentence: "Both males and females hover near flowers similar to flies in the family Syrphidae", which I moved from "Behavior" to "Diet" since it seemed to relate more to the foraging behavior of bees; to supplement this rearrangement, I changed the name of the "Diet" section to "Diet and foraging behavior." To improve the article, it might be interesting to include more information on interspecies interactions, such as how these bees combat predators and parasites. Great work so far, though! Cmbakwe (talk) 04:37, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

I think that this article is well researched and well-written in terms of grammar. I think that the main issue arose from the sections and organization of the article. I think that the Nesting section as well as its subheading could be placed under the Distribution and Habitat section. I think the Description section has a lot of words and if possible, should be divided into subheadings so the information is easier to read and follow. Similarly, the mating section should have a specific subheading called "Polyandry" for the paragraph talking about polyandry. I think that Resource Defense should also be placed under the Male Aggression section since it has to do more with that than with Mating. I think that the mating section has a lot of information and not as many citations, so try to look through and cite as much as applicable in this section especially. Overall good work! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rasikareddy1019 (talk • contribs) 05:06, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with most of the reviews above. The article was very well written, and a few of the sections could be expanded. In the Taxonomy section, is there any close relatives? And is there any more information out there about their foraging behavior? I also added links to the Description section and the Nesting section. For the Mating Behavior section, it was interesting to learn that females exhibit polyandry. However, I don't think you need the first few sentences to this section. It can get confusing that you start the section off by saying that females only mate once in their lifetime, since A. manicatum don't exhibit this behavior. But otherwise, great work! Liz.yucknut (talk) 03:53, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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