Talk:Brachygastra mellifica

message: Overall, I think this article is a great work in progress. I focused on the writing aspect of the article and made a couple of minor grammatical or sentence flow corrections to the entire article. Below, I have listed sentences that I think should be revised. I thought the information in the ‘Appearance’ section was organized well. I thought the first sentence in the ‘Colony cycle’ section was repetitive and unnecessary ("Nests of B. mellifica can have anywhere from 3,500 to 18,700 wasps.”)  I thought the ‘Sources of food’ section was repetitive as well. A better picture in the right hand box with a picture of the actual wasp species rather than its nest would be nice. I thought you used the references really well and milked a good amount of information from them. 
A couple questions I had: 
# In terms of the ‘Pollinators’ section, is this species special because it can pollinate avocado flowers because it isn’t hairless? It seemed unclear.
# In terms of the ‘Sources of food’ section, what’s harvested, the plants or the wasps?
Sentences to consider revising: 
# Colony Cycle: "The high relatedness of a given colony's queens may indicate that such queens are only produced in the colony when there is a single queen.”
# Diet:  "B. mellifica is very good at searching and feeding on D.citri in tree flushes, one of their major prey.”
# Diet: "B. mellifica also may consume larvae of Anthonomus aeneoulus Dietz and a moth from the family Alucitidae.” (Does Dietz need to be in parentheses?)
# Predators: "Diogmites angustipennis Loew is a robber fly known to prey on honeybees that has been observed preying in B. mellifica.” (Does Loew need to be in parentheses?)
# Predators: “Other dismembered nests have damage that is similar to the damage caused by the woodpeckers to the nests.” (This sentence seemed out of place)
Sandyamuchimilli (talk) 22:42, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review

message: Hello, I am currently working on a class project on wasps and just wanted to make a few comments about the article. There are two places in the introduction that state this is one of the few types of wasps to produce honey. I think if all of the information about honey was put together, the introduction would flow a lot better.  Also, I think it would make sense to place the section about the Vespidaae Family before the one on the nest since it is the only section that is focused on the family instead of the single species. The section headings also probably don't all need to say Brachygastra Mellifica since the article is about that species. For example, the one that says "The Brachygastra Mellifica Community" could just say "Community" and relay the same information. More generally sections about colony dynamics and life cycle would be useful to get a better understanding of this species. Overall I think that the article has some interesting information and is off to a good start! Ashleyearley (talk) 23:06, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: The sentence "B. mellifica is the only species to occur in the US, in both Arizona and Texas. B. mellifica ranges from Texas to Nicaragua” was changed to “B. mellifica ranges from Texas to Nicaragua and is the only species to occur in both Arizona and Texas.” Mayxac (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomy and Phylogeny 

message: In the sentence beginning, “B. mellifica is found in a range from…,” “American” was changed to “America.”
In the sentence “B. mellifica builds its nest in the canopy of a shrub or a tree, often 1 to 9 m above the ground,” the word “builds” was un-italicized. Mayxac (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distribution and Habitat 

message: The sentence “Populations are abundant during July and September, times that are associated with plentiful citrus groves and thus large D. citri populations, a common prey of B. mellifica” was changed to “Populations are abundant during July and September, which are times associated with plentiful citrus groves and thus, large D. citri populations, a common prey of B. mellifica.” D. citri should also be expanded the first time it is mentioned to include the full genus and species name along with a quick description of what it is. “B. mellifca” was corrected to “B. mellifica” in the sentence starting in “Like all advanced eusocial hymenoptera…” Mayxac (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colony Cycle 

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