User talk:Seb az86556/Joe Sixlegs

Dear Sir or Madam,

As an entomologist by profession and a monarchist by persuasion, I thank you for creating this web page. However, I must point out that there are several errors in it requiring prompt attention.

Firstly, it appears that the ant in question is described in the article as being male. This is extremely unlikely; nearly all the ants in a particular population are female with the exception of the short-lived drones. While ants genrally are secondarily apterous (in lay terms, without wings), drones are winged. Nowhere in the web page are wings mentioned, leading me to suspect a grave error regarding the sex of this web page's subject.

Some arthropods such as the Chilopoda (centipedes) and Diplopoda (millipedes) have numerous visible segments. You may remember being taught in High School Biology that ants have three "segments", but this in fact not so. Their bodies are also composed of numerous segments, but they are fused into larger functional groups called "tagmata". Unfortunately, this means that "third segment" as used in the webpage is at best rather vague.

While I admire your partiotic enthusism to describe the minutiae of the marriage of the future sovereign of our two great nations and his wife, I must also point out that the use of the term "Union Jack" is incorrect. I myself am not a vexilologist; neveretheless I consider myself broad-minded enough to believe that conduct between consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes should be a matter into which society should not pry, and to know that a "jack" is a flag flown at sea. Thus, the unusual marking of this species should more properly be referred to as those of the "Union flag". Finally, it is also quite implausible that an insect could write the works of William Shakespeare. As even a small child knows, before and after faking his death and moving to Italy, Christopher Marlowe co-wrote the corpus of writing normally ascribed solely to Shakespeare himself.

I am new to Wikipedia and do not yet know how to make updates, but would appreciate if someone were to make the above corrections.

Regards,

Michael Smottlethwaite, BSc (Hons), PhD (USyd)