User talk:Mandeljulia

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Hello, Mandeljulia, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Exoneura robusta
Hi Mandeljulia. Really nice work on the Exoneura robusta article. I think it might be a good candidate to submit for the "Did you know...?" feature. I did notice though that your writing style is more like that of a journal article and less like an encyclopaedia article. Bear in mind that you are writing for a general audience, often people who have no more than a high school level understanding of biology. For example, in the relatedness among colony members section, you say
 * Relatedness among immature bees within colonies has been found to be 0.439, which is significantly lower than the expected relatedness of 0.75 in haplodiploid species. This supports the observation that nests are founded by multiple females, and it suggests that these females may also mate with multiple males

In the first sentence, you lay out the supporting evidence, in the second, you explain why this matters. When you're writing for general audiences, start with the "meat" - the interesting bit: Colonies have been observed to be founded by multiple females; this is supported by the fact that offsprings are less related than you'd expect. Or, if you stick with the way you currently have it, make the statement in plain English first: Immature bees in these colonies are less closely related than would expect, if they were the offspring of a single foundress and her mate. Then go with the why: observations that colonies are founded by multiple queens, speculation that they mate with multiple males. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:55, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Exoneura robusta
Gatoclass (talk) 11:37, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Halictus sexcinctus
Again, very nice work on the Halictus sexcinctus article. However, I think you need to find a better source for the information supported by reference #9 - although Steven Falk] appears to be an expert, a Flickr page isn't really a reliable source for information, as far as Wikipedia articles are concerned. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:42, 26 October 2015 (UTC)