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My name is Daniel Ouellette and I am a student taking Behavioral Ecology this semester. I made the F. truncorum page and have focused on material pertaining to my class, like eusociality and sex ratio conflicts.

Hey Daniel, your article looks really good. Similarly to the point I made on your other ant article, I would suggest expanding your description of the castes within eusociality and how they benefit the fitness of the species. It would be nice to see some pictures if you are able to. Some of your sections (I'm thinking specifically the dispersal polymorphism section) use some more complex terminology that I think would be worthwhile to link to relevant wikipedia articles for further explanation, to make your article more accessible to those unfamiliar with the topic. Rosemaryshanley (talk) 21:35, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Daniel, I think that this article is very well written. I have made some minor grammatical changes to make some sentences more concise. I think that you should define the term "intranidally." I think it would help readers understand that paragraph. For getting the article to good article I think you should add some more citations. Also, it would be nice to expand the other non-behavior sections of the article. I will try to find some things to help you. Kaijones5245 (talk) 23:11, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel, Great article of course. I just tidied up three small things. I defined polydomous because I thought it wasn't a very familiar term. I also changed your heading "Habitat" to "Range and habitat" because you had countries listed underneath it. Finally, I changed the first sentence under eusociality so that readers understood that Hymenoptera is an insect order that most eusocial belong to. Blubird25 (talk) 06:01, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]