Talk:Camponotus herculeanus

A fact from Camponotus herculeanus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in North America, the Hercules ant (pictured) tends aphids, as well as the larvae of the silvery blue butterfly?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 22:21, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in North America, the Hercules ant tends aphids, as well as the larvae of the silvery blue butterfly? Source: "Camponotus herculeanus tends aphids (Jones, 1929; Mackay and Mackay, 2002) and the myrmecophilous lycaenid butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus that feed predominantly on Lupinus bakeri (Fraser et al., 2001)."

Reviewed: Gabriel Turville-Petre

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 06:18, 7 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

starting review--Kev min § 22:52, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Article expansion is new enough and long enough. Article is cited and sourced. Though a significant portion of the prose is cited to AntWiki.org, I think it still passes reliability and specifically Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources, as it is edited and maintained by myrmecologists, meeting the requirement that a source is produced by an expert(s) on the subject field with independently published sources on the topic. @Cwmhiraeth: I read through Falconer Smith (1944) and did not find any specifics that are mentioned in the hook. However some portions of the sentence containing the hook are found on antwiki. Sourcing clarification of the second paragraph of the ecology section is needed.--Kev min § 23:49, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Kevmin: Thanks for the review. I have added an extra reference that should cover the hook facts. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:14, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Cwmhiraeth: Awesome, thank you. I am still trying to locate where these to preeceeding sentences are from "The diet is largely liquid, being the honeydew produced by sap-sucking insects. The ants also consume any insect larvae that they encounter." When we get those squared away the nom will be good to go!--Kev min § 14:45, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Kevmin: #7 states that this ant is probably both aphidicolous and entomophagous (though I'm not sure of the definitions of these words), and mentions that they eat insect larvae. They tend aphids in order to gather the honeydew but I have removed the "largely liquid diet" claim. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:26, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References are clarified, everything looks good to go. --Kev min § 20:47, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I would suggest adding this or a similar image to the hook for a visual. Image meets main page criteria and works at thumbnail size.