User talk:Corbiculad

Hi. It's nice that you're contributing to the bumblebee page, and most of your changes have been fine, but please don't make up words and then make pages to include them in Wikipedia. There is no such word as "trophylaxis". The word is "trophallaxis", and you'll note that it already HAS an entry in WP. That's why we request that editors use AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES when adding material, so mistakes like that don't happen. Please, in the future, make sure that you are taking your information from authoritative work on the topic, okay? Thanks, Dyanega 17:35, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bombus subgenera/species list

My inclination, at this point, would be not to actually list all the subgenera on the page, but instead make sure that all the species pages place each species in the correct subgenus following the new classification. What you MIGHT do is to compose a separate article - a "List of world bumblebee species" (there's just over 200, if you don't count subspecies) - and organize that article by subgenera. About the only change that might need to be made to the bumblebee article would be to change the number of subgenera from 37 to whatever number those authors have used. I certainly wouldn't bother making separate articles for each subgenus. Peace, Dyanega 16:48, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]