# Talk:Brood parasitism

Suggest adding "intraspecific brood parasitism has been recorded in 234 avian species" 
This is the most up to date count on the number of bird species that perform intraspecific brood parasitism. Scolypopa (talk) 04:08, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Scolypopa

This review is transcluded from Talk:Brood parasite/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 01:49, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 01:49, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
Images are appropriately tagged; sources are reliable.

"Being larger than the hosts at growth is a further adaptation to being a brood parasite": shouldn't this be "at birth"?
Amended to "on hatching".
"The ant then brings the third instar larva back into its own nest and raises them until pupation": should be "larvae"?
Yes, done.
That's all I have; the article is in excellent shape. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 02:08, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the review, and the warm words. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:19, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
Fixes look good; passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 11:11, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

All or almost all species of parasite ants (where a queen invades the anthill of another species, in some cases killing the host queen, and their larvae was taken care by the host worker ants)  should not be also considered brood parasites? They seem undistinguishable from the examples of wasps and bumblebees in the article. Or are not included because the host workers also feed the parasite queen, and not only the larvae? MiguelMadeira (talk) 03:41, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Mm, they are treated rather differently by biologists. All we can do is to follow the scientific sources here. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:15, 27 January 2023 (UTC)