Talk:Small hive beetle

Mode of movement
There's no indication how the beetle gets from location A to location B. Can they fly? I don't know the answer to this, and I was sort of expecting to find it in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcwren (talk • contribs) 00:36, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Untitled
"If you discover or suspect that any of your hives has an infestation of small hive beetles, contact a Virginia apiary inspector."

This doesn't seem to belong in this article. Just seems a bit too specific. It's like saying in an article about robbery to "Contact the 14th Precinct."

Its no more there
You are right and it seems to be edited by someone -maybe you. There's no such sentence anymore.Neophyrigian (talk) 09:06, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Virginia Tech Source
The link for the source "The Small Hive Beetle Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, June 1999, accessed Sep 2005" is no more valid. It can be accessed via archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20070314153020/http://www.ento.vt.edu/~fell/apiculture/hivebeetle/ I'm not sure how to edit in such situation, so I'm leaving it to be edited by a more experienced friend. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neophyrigian (talk • contribs) 08:59, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

absence vs. presence
Shouldn't

Its absence can also be a marker in the diagnosis

be

Its presence can also be a marker in the diagnosis

just from a logical standpoint?

Dead links and bad references deletion.
Under the Sub-Section "Distribution", we have the below four sentences; two References are given, the first which isn't even a proper Wiki reference by any stretch of the imagination and the second appears to be a dead link. There is a citation request going back to 2017! So, without any proper References being provided, these unsourced sentences need to be removed; I'll wait for a short while to wait for feedback, and then hopefully wiki standard references.


 * The movement of migratory beekeepers from Florida may have transported the beetle to other states. Recent findings also indicate transport of the beetles in packages. In Canada, the small hive beetle has been detected in Manitoba (2002 and 2006), Alberta (2006), Québec (2008, 2009), Ontario (2010), British Columbia (2015), and New Brunswick (2017). In the Prairie Provinces, measures were taken to control the pest, and small hive beetles failed to establish a population. It is still to be determined whether the small hive beetle has been able to establish a resident population in Ontario or Québec.

Bibby (talk) 21:40, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Citation needed for the italian situation
"Since 2015 the beetle is present in Southern Italy (Calabria and Sicily) and some areas have been quarantined" Here is a citation, straight from the italian ministry of health website. https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/sanitaAnimale/dettaglioContenutiSanitaAnimale.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=258&tab=2 79.11.109.71 (talk) 12:22, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2024
— Assignment last updated by Angelina2024 (talk) 01:23, 21 March 2024 (UTC) Chri Ye (talk) 22:31, 29 February 2024 (UTC)I added detailed description about the food resources, physical description, and other important behaviors of small hive beetles. The original life history section was deleted because the information only focused on the physical appearance of the beetle during its different life stages. I sorted these information and wrote a new Description section. The Life History was rewritten and it included a more comprehensive view about the growth of the beetle. Other sections were not edited. All information was found in scientific research papers and well referenced

Peer Review
Hello, I am leaving a peer review on your article! I think that this article is very interesting and was enjoyable to read. It does a good job of covering a wide variety of topics! I made some edits to your article as well. Throughout the article, I noticed some minor grammatical errors, so I fixed those. There was also a spot that mentioned that peppermint extract or candy could be used to control the beetle in the control section. This was not backed up with a source, so I added a citation needed marker. There are also several other citation needed markers from other editors that I would suggest resolving. I also added more information in the control section. Particularly, I added information about how fungi could be used as a form of biocontrol. Angelina2024 (talk) 03:04, 21 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Additionally, I added several links to various terms throughout the article that readers could click so they could find more information about them. Angelina2024 (talk) 03:13, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Peer review
This article is well-written and has a lot of interesting information under each of the sections. There are pieces of information that are missing citations (citation needed markers), so I would make sure to add the references. I also suggest expanding on the Migration and Enemies sections. For example, adding an explanation as to why the beetles prefer long distance flights or information about any defenses they might have against predators will elevate these sections. I also moved the information under the Regulation section to the Distribution section because it was information about the distribution of the beetle in Australia. Cvj.005 (talk) 23:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)