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adventurous soul had rented a backhoe and dug up several colonies to see how deep they went -- more than 30 feet. I consider it insane to mess with these things on that scale; I was stung by one once and it hurts.) Anyway, I am not sure if this can be verified. The decline in abundance of these ants might be related to the general lowering of the water tables, and not to competition from other ants.
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I think this article is pretty good. The sections are relatively concise and meaningful, which is good. I think the recent additions really beefed up on the information in this article and made it a much stronger candidate for improving the article status. One thing I noticed that was missing is a
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Hey, this is a great article. The information is all there and its easy to follow and understand. I feel like instead of having so many sections, you have just use better organization to form fewer, stronger paragraphs. I think you can move the 'initial colony formation' to the top of colonization
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Species of Seeds Used? I live in South Texas USA and have a few nests of
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This article could contain much more. This is a characteristic ant of Texas and used to be found more frequently. When I was studying zoology in graduate school, I was told that the tunnels of a colony of "Pogo ants" always reach to the water table or at least to permanently moist soil. (Some
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I'm enrolled in a college ecology class, and we had an assignment to edit a wikipedia article. I attempted to help the organization of this article and I added a lot of information about foraging behavior, including several references. Hopefully this improved the article at least in amount of
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I think that the decline in abundance should be its own category. This of course would require more sources and research, but as the above comment states, the decline could be due to other factors. If a species is failing to adapt and is in decline, possibly to extinction, the cause should be
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description of the organism, which would be really helpful in addition to the pictures. Information on range would also be very helpful to add, as other than in the intro there is no indication of where they live. Overall, a well polished article so far, but could use some additional info.
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instead of making it as a subsection. Also, 'sexual selection' can probably be combined with 'mating behavior'. Lastly, I would remove the 'captive ecology' section first until you find more data or sources as it is the weakest section in the article. Overall, great job!.
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