Talk:Nannotrigona testaceicornis

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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): Shelly May. Peer reviewers: HBrodke, Danakes6, Kulshrestha51.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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): Shelly May. Peer reviewers: HBrodke, Danakes6, Kulshrestha51.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:24, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review 1

Good job on this article! I appreciate the distribution map in the righthand box, however if you continue to work on this page, it could definitely benefit from a picture of the bee (even a drawing). I made a few edits in the overview section to make it clearer. I rearranged the first sentence so we know right away that is's a bee, and I deleted a few words to make it more concise. There were a couple instances throughout the page where the species was described as a wasp, so I changed the wording to correctly say 'bee'. I am a little confused about the chemical signals in the description section as well as the last sentence in the communication section. I don't want to accidentally change the meaning by editing these parts, but they could use some rephrasing. Finally I added a few links to other pages near the end. Good job again, I was especially interested in the information about the miniature queens, so even more information related to that could be interesting as well as a section about nest construction. HBrodke (talk) 21:51, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review 2

This was a very well-written article and I made only a few edits for grammar throughout. Some of the links to other articles were not to the correct article. For example, there was a link to Queens, New York instead of to the page on queen bees so I fixed that. I also added in a link to queen bees in the section on role differentiation because there was a link later but this was the first time that queens are introduced in detail so I figured it would be helpful to have it initially. Otherwise, great start to this article! --Danakes6 (talk) 03:41, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review 3

Fantastic article! I particularly found it interesting that this bee can live within urban habitats, since the urban impact on bees is so important today with the growing extinction of bee species. I don't know how much research is available in general on your bee but I think a good place to move forward would be to expand your section on the Colony Cycle in order to give a broader picture of the bee and its activities. For my part, I went through and fixed a few punctuation and grammatical mistakes. I also added a few links to integrate the page more within Wikipedia. Finally, I deleted redundant links because the Wikipedia Manual of Style says to only link the first occurrence of a word within an article. Finally, I also italicized the title since it is the latin name of a species. Again, great job, and I hope my edits helped! Kulshrestha51 (talk) 09:06, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Comments

My edits were mainly grammar and punctuation changes. The article presents a lot of really interesting, well-researched information, but there was one part in particular that I thought could use some attention. Under the Description heading, you talk about abdominal extracts. What exactly is the purpose/significance of these extracts? Immediately after discussing abdominal extracts, you talk about experiments that show that certain compounds attract workers, but these compounds are not the same as the abdominal extracts. What is the significance of these compounds? If they are not related to abdominal extracts at all, I would put this information under another heading or create a smoother transition, as it doesn’t seem to be completely related. (Mpmaz (talk) 22:52, 1 December 2015 (UTC))