Talk:Ropalidia marginata

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I'm working on filling out more of this article for a class. In fact its this year's version of the same class those people below were in. Its under editing as I do research, check it out in my sandbox and let me know if you have thoughts, advice, or resources. Annamargit (talk) 03:46, 22 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Is there any human experience same kind of behavior that this insect behavior by the time of attack 86.96.36.222 (talk) 14:52, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi all. I am currently participating in a school project to contribute to Wikipedia. I am learning a lot and would like to leave some comments regarding this article. Please feel free to respond.

The article on the wasp, Ropalidia marginata is currently a B-class quality article of low-importance. With a few more edits, this article can achieve “Good” article status. The article makes clear use of a taxobox. Some of the links made in the article refer to common household items that may not need to be linked to be recognized by readers. Citations may be needed in the section “The potential queen”, where previous edits state wasp societies have succession hierarchies. One of the relevant ecological properties of this species not mentioned is the possibility of “life insurance”, where a female may help raise the brood of another instead of breeding her own offspring. This concept was suggested by Dave Queller and was later studied by Raghavendra Gadakar, who discovered that there is an advantage to the helper female to promote this behavior. I would potentially place this concept in the article right after the paragraph where it states the female has options after eclosing on her nest. A relevant citation to the original papers will be made. Other potential additions to this article could be sections describing the diet, predators, and relationship with humans, as modeled by the Featured articles of WikiProject Insects.

GenesBrainsBehaviorNeuroscienceKL (talk) 23:24, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I am also participating in a school project on this subject. The article starts off strong. I thought that it provides strong background on the origin of its name as well as the locations where the paper wasp can be found. Under biology, the author notes the types of nests they make, its aseasonal, indeterminate and perennial colony cycle, and the versatility behind the roles of the workers. The author makes the point that the versatility could cause conflict in the R. marginata, but the queen maintains a reproductive monopoly, making it an excellent model for studying the evolution of cooperation. The Wiki article focuses extensively on the queen’s behavior, and how a potential queen would behave in order to become queen. The article however does miss some aspects mentioned by the book, "An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology" by Davies, Krebs, and West. The chapter “Altruism and Conflict in the Social Insects” mentions the study done on ‘insurance effect’ by Raghavendra Gadagkar where if a female was rearing her brood and she dies, others would continue to carry out brood care. A solitary female has only a .12 chance of surviving the 62 days it takes to take care of her larva. However, nesting a group increases her expected success by 3.6 fold. Alexliu818 (talk) 19:44, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

New Section, Subsection, Information, and References
I added an additional section (Behavior) and subsections (Colony Dynamics, Workers, and Males). I added information about the behavior of R. marginata and their intraspecific interactions. I also added 5 references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LibbyWard (talk • contribs) 04:16, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Peer Review
Hello! Great article! I learned a lot about your species and I enjoyed the large number of sections that you provided. I also enjoyed looking at the pictures, they enhanced my understanding of your species. I made a few small grammatical changes throughout, and rearranged some sentences to increase clarity. Additionally, I have a few more comments. Firstly, I suggest moving the information about phylogeny that is in the overview section to the taxonomy and phylogeny section. This would make the phylogeny section more complete, and would leave room for a more thorough overview in the original section. Next, in the worker section, I found the last sentence to be confusing, so I might suggest that you take a look at it and find a way to reword it or expand upon it. Additionally, I think that the sentence "The queen with her workers primarily through chemicals, direct or indirect physical interactions are not used by the workers to perceive their queen," in the queens section, is missing something, and might need to be changed. I would also recommend moving the queens section to before the potential queens section, for I think this flows more logically. I would recommend explaining the terms "eclosion" and "tenure" as they are used in the brood development section and expanding on the colony adoption section, for it is a bit confusing. Finally, I would double check that the citation method that you used in your mating system section is correct.

Once again a great job! Thank you. Kirinne (talk) 23:43, 30 September 2014 (UTC)Kirinne

Your article is fantastic. It is well cited, well linked, and well written. You included lots of informative sections and the pictures you chose supplemented these sections well. One thing I think you could make more clear is the mating system section. There is a lot of information here, which may not be as accessible to the general public. I would link polyandry and polygyny whenever they show up to their respective Wikipedia articles to give readers more context. Also, could you perhaps expand more on the predation section? Perhaps you could talk about more about their predator-prey interaction and how they co-evolved such a defense strategy. Additionally, maybe you could have a section about what these wasps eat? Also, please expand on the predation section if possible. Ajlu1 (talk) 04:35, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Some quick edits
This article is very well-written and adequately cited. I ended up finding a couple of sentences that were unclear, so I changed them slightly. I changed sentences in the sub-sections “Potential queens,” “Queens,” “Males,” and “Male feeding behavior,” mostly focusing on punctuation and wording. I found a British spelling in the section “Recognition” and changed it to the American spelling consistent with the rest of the writing in the article, and added some commas to clarify one sentence at the end. In the section “Mating System” a number of the sentences are ended with a number in parentheses such as “(851).” I am confused about what these numbers are referring to, maybe page numbers. While I’m not certain of the common practice in Wikipedia for citing page numbers, I think these can be taken out (although I left them in just in case they served some other purpose). In the section on “Polyandry,” I changed “father’s genes” to “paternal genes” to be more specific. The last sentence in this section might have some typos, it had a quotation mark at the start, but none at the end (was this supposed to be a quotation?), which I removed. Also the citation is italicized, which I’m not sure how to get rid of. Gaharrison94 (talk) 02:48, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
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