Talk:Trigona corvina

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Claire.packer. Peer reviewers: Mandeljulia, Wdsieling, Missmanasa.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:27, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Constructive Feedback
Overall, the article was extremely informative and well written. Especially good job with the citations; every fact has a clear citation following it. You also do a great job explaining the range of interactions that T.corvina has with other species. I do, however, think you can potentially add a bit more within-species interaction information (i.e within species aggression, social hierarchy, etc.)-- how do individual T.corvina interact with other individual T.corvina? As of right now, “communication” and “kin selection” are the only sections that talk about interactions /behaviors within species. I think it would also be incredibly interesting if you detailed exactly how pheromones serve as a method of sexual selection between males and females (there seems to be a bit more information about this in the paper that you cited). Furthermore, I think you can be a bit more clear in the “interaction with other species section”. There you use the word “bee” a lot and it becomes a little unclear what you are talking about (other species or other T. corvina individuals from a different colony-- the header does help clear this up a bit, but more clarity in the main text would not hurt). It would also be really useful to name/cite some of these “other” species of bees you are referring to in this section. I went ahead and added a couple of hyperlinks to words such are “foraging”, “pheromones”, “pollen”, “honeybees”, “M. ruficrus”, “Trigona hyalinata” and more. Overall great work! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkottapalli (talk) 20:14, 01 October 2015 (UTC)

Suggestions/Corrections
The main corrections I made were concerning basic grammar and sentence structure, as well as the addition of inter-Wiki links. In the first sentence, I corrected an error of subject-verb agreement by changing “live” to “lives” as the word “species” was used in a singular context. I also added around 10 inter-Wiki links for words that I felt could require further explanation, such as “pheromones,” “mandibles,” and “sexual selection”. Moreover, I reworded the first sentence of the defense section; it was originally one lengthy sentence so I divided it into two shorter sentences for more comprehensive clarity. My suggestions for improvement include possibly adding additional information to the section on "Parasites" as this seems quite brief. Perhaps describe how the parasite affects the host insect or a defense mechanism for eliminating the parasite.

Otherwise, I thought the article was very well written and thorough! :) Missmanasa (talk) 19:14, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Feedback
I have some questions and constructive feedback I’d like to share about the article. First, in the overview you indicate that these bees can be parasitic and then follow that up with a statement about their crop pollination. Does this mean they are parasitic in such a way as to harm humans/human crop production, or are they parasitic to other bees? It would be helpful to clarify this distinction. The whole taxonomy and phylogeny section could use more explanation. When you say T. corvina was classified to M. ruficrus, does this mean they were reclassified as a new species? Or are they a sub-species? You may also want to explain why it is significant that they are only “slightly more related to M. ruficrus than to Trigona hyalinata.” In distribution and habitat, you may want to clarify the last sentence so it is clear that the colonies occur in the forest at a density of 1.0 colonies/ha. (assuming that is what you are trying to say). At the end of colony cycle, your final senetence could be streamlined to simply say: “Since nests…branches, T. corvina nests are often attacked by large animals.” In the kin selection section, you say “similarity is greater…” which implies there should be some sort of comparison. Do you mean to say similarity is greater between neighboring nests than more distant nests? The meaning of the last sentence in the defense section is a little unclear. Do you mean if two different colonies are fighting? And what type of splitting of resources occurs to avoid excessive deaths? Additionally, I made small grammatical edits throughout the article, as well as small word changes to increase clarity. Let me know if you have any questions about my comments, thanks! Mandeljulia (talk) 16:18, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review
Overall, I thought the article was well written and detailed. I like that you included the information about how they use pheromones to protect food and signal nest location in the introduction as it was interesting and made me want to read more. You did a great job of referencing every fact, as well as using 15 sources to compile the information. Some of the sections may be too condensed however, and some of the information presented is confusing. For example, if you could explain the tradeoff between defense and foraging more I think it would be easier for the viewer to comprehend.

I edited several aspects of the article, including spelling and grammar, organization and structure.

In terms of spelling and grammar, there weren’t too many corrections to be made. I did change the sentence structure and phrasing around in a couple of places. Some of the phrasing was a bit awkward, so I reworded it. An example is in the nest structure section, I reworded “uncleanly” to “uncleanliness”.

Structurally, I combined the sections dominance hierarchy and communication into a more general category called “Behavior.” I also added the name of the person who discovered the species and the year of discovery in parenthesis right after the first mention of the species. Kevin.george1 (talk) 00:35, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review
This is a well written and interesting article on Trigona corvina. You're very thorough in your sections on nests, colony cycle, and communication and I found the information on this species very interesting. The introduction was a great summary with facts that made me want to learn more. The only change I made was hyperlinking the word heterozygosity to its wikipedia page, as you do not define it in this article but it may be an uncertain word for a general reader. What I would suggest adding is information on what makes a virgin queen. Since they start new colonies with neighboring males, what factors create a virgin queen? Is it genetic? How is she selected? How does she leave the original nest? Overall awesome job. Wdsieling (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:32, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review
Excellent article you have. There is nothing I could fine wrong with it. Two things to think about though. First see if you find anything on virgin queens and how they behave and see if you can add that to the article. The second thing that you could add is a distribution map to the page. I think it will really tie the page together. I also added a link to Evolutionary Stable Strategy and Virgin Queens.VAD2015 (talk) 16:37, 5 December 2015 (UTC)