Talk:Mischocyttarus drewseni

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Peer Review[edit]

Very interesting, well-organized, and informative article! Great job! I went through and edited some spelling mistakes and changed Mischocyttarus drewseni to M. drewseni. It's unnecessary to repeat the full species name every time it is mentioned. Additionally, I added a few internal links to Wikipedia pages, one being the page to M. flavitarsis. Finally, I added this page as part of the educational assignment through Washington University. Dkrinock (talk) 00:47, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There were a couple typos in the overview and the introductory sections. I changed “genuses” to “genera” in a couple of places, and corrected the typos. I know that I have come across the species Mischocyttarus drewsenii (with two i’s), is this the same species or a different one? Maybe the article could discuss this alternate spelling (or spelling error) which is present in the literature. There were a couple instances in which Mischocyttarus was not italicized, and I removed a link for “tarsal” which was accidentally linking to a genus of bees. The behavioral part of the article is really interesting, and I mostly ended up fixing minor grammar mistakes and adding links. Also, since there are no CC BY-SA images of your wasp (that I can find readily available on the internet), maybe you could put in an image of something else that is important for this species, maybe a plant they forage on or a map of their distribution. Great work on this article so far! Gaharrison94 (talk) 02:01, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Really good article! I learned a lot and was really interested throughout the whole article. I just have a few suggestions. I would recommend to put some more citations in the overview section, so it is clearer where each piece of information is coming from. I would recommend maybe switching the last two sentences of the ‘nest material foraging behavior’ section, for I think that would make it clearer. In your ‘beginning of nest construction’ section, do you mean to say 24-hours when you say ‘one-day’? I was confused because you mentioned previously that the construction continues into the next day. Also, I would have a look at your ‘pupal stage’ section for I think you may have mixed up some terms. In the first sentence you mention that the pupal stage is less variable than the larval stage, but later in the section you say the “larval stage is very stable.” Finally, I would watch the number of links that you have throughout, some of them are unneeded. Again, really good job. I really enjoyed it! Kirinne (talk) 04:10, 24 October 2014 (UTC)Kirinne[reply]