Talk:Polistes chinensis

Recommendations

I think your article was good, informative, and well written for the sections included. It was a great start in compiling information about Polistes chinensis. The picture you included was also great in detail and provided a complimenting visual. I thought it was very smart in linking certain key words throughout your article. This definitely helps integrate your article into other ones within Wikipedia, and will hopefully help your page receive more traffic. Further development of your article could help people gain a better, more encompassing understanding of your species. It seemed like you were preparing to add information for the Nest Guarding, Resource Allocation, Diet, and predators sections, so this would be a good start. You mentioned the various stages within this wasp's colony cycle, and it would be good if there were more specifics added explaining what occurs at each of these stages. Your cannibalism section under behavior was well written and thorough. Maybe additional information could be added about how these wasps interact with each other. Is there presence of eusociety? Is there dominance either in the form of a dominance hierarchy or involving reproductive matters? This cited article might help you give insight for more information to add: Miyano, Shinya. "Number of offspring and seasonal changes of their body weight in a paperwasp, Polistes chinensis antennalis Pérez (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with reference to male production by workers." Researches on population ecology 25.1 (1983): 198-209. It refers to differences in male production within Polistes chinenis colonies.Throughout your article, you sometimes forgot to italicize your species name so I went ahead and made that edit. There were also a few spelling errors and run-on sentences that I edited. In addition, I capitalized some of your headings just to make them stand out a bit more. I also added the course banner to the top of this Talk page. Daphne Deng (talk) 10:46, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

General comments

I really enjoyed reading this article, it seems to contain a lot of interesting and unique facts about this particular species of wasps. However, if I could make some suggestions, they would be:

Overview

I think there are some parts that could be clarified to make the article more informative. For example, instead of saying "making it a concern regarding conservation", it would be nice to clearly mention who that "it" is. For now, it is a little confusing as to whether the Polistes chinensis is a concern or the subspecies Polistes chinensis antennalis is of concern. Other than that, the overview does a really good job on concisely summarizing the entire article!

Description

Just out of curiosity, is there a difference between the morphology of a female/male/worker/queen Polistes chinensis? How do they differ and is there any significance in the various sizes of the species?

Distribution

When it is called an "invasive" species, what does this exactly mean? Is it referred so because it is invading the native species and endangering them? Or is it simply called so because they are not native to New Zealand?

Colony cycle

It was really neat that there were 3 clear distinctions made in the colony cycle. But I think there could be some more elaboration made on "when the colony disintegrates". Is it when the queen dies, when the climate changes, or etc?

Kin selection

I made a hyperlink to the word "monandrous" - to help people less familiar with ecological terms understand the page better. Also, just to help clarify things, I edited the sentence explaining the relationships between each relatives. Instead of just saying they are 0.5 related, 0.375 related, I changed it to "~ is 0.5times genetically related" and so on.

Edits made

There were two categories that were empty (Life History and Predator), and had a banner that said "This section is empty", so I just removed them. I also added synonyms on the right hand box since there were other names the species had.

Overall, the information was very interesting and the categorization was clear, easy to follow. Well done! Dwjoanne (talk) 02:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Peer Review

Hello! Really great article! Thank you! I made just a few small changes throughout, and I have a few suggestions. First, I would add the common names for your species into the overview section. This will just allow for a more complete introduction. Also, I might recommend removing the last two sentences from your ‘distribution and habitat’ section. They are just a little repetitive from the previous section. I would rephrase your ‘genetic relatedness within colonies’ section. If you can, try to begin by saying that P. chinensis differs from other wasps, and then explain the phenomenon. I would also recommend expanding your discussion of what worker policing actually is, this might clarify the article. Finally, just double check your references and make sure that all of the URLs are working. Again, great job! Kirinne (talk) 04:06, 24 October 2014 (UTC)Kirinne

Additional Comments

Because the introductory section is supposed to summarize all the key points found throughout the article, acting more as an abstract than a brief opening section, I summarized the key points throughout the current version of the article and came up with the following potential new introduction section (did not directly add this to the article because it represents a large change, but rather placed this potential new introductory section here so you can decide whether or not you would like to use it): Polistes chinensis is a Polistine vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes, and is commonly known as the Asian, Chinese or Japanese paper wasp. Predominantly found in East Asia (in particular China and Japan) the subspecies Polistes chinensis antennalis has also been identified as an invasive species in New Zealand. While the Asian paper wasp frequently constructs nests on man-made buildings in urban habitats, it can also build nests on trees and bushes near forest clearings. In the spring, an overwintered female emerges to begin nest construction and egg laying. Within the nest, foraging is key to colony survival; wasps leave the nest to collect nectar and honeydew from flowers. These wasps, however, generally prey on invertebrates, especially caterpillars. But leaving the nest to forage brings a high predation risk, so often the Polistes chinesis will cannibalize its own larvae. But other predators also feed on the larvae, and the foundresses use this larvae loss to assess the appropriate time needed to guard the nest. Within the nest, there is a high genetic relatedness as males are haploid and the wasps monandrous. In this species, this genetic relatedness brings about reproductive conflict: queens destroy up to 70% of worker-laid eggs and are aided by workers in a process known as worker policing. Diana He819 (talk) 11:35, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Repeated sections in text

Just noting a fair bit of word for word repetition in the Distribution and Habitat section, eg the mentions of New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and New South Wales. There are citations in there which is why I have left it in the hope a wasp expert can take a look at it. Piwaiwaka (talk) 08:41, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Taken,some out now Piwaiwaka (talk) 23:14, 22 January 2017 (UTC)