Talk:Hylaeus (bee)

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Hawai'i, etc.

I added a section about Hawai'i including new endangered species status (seven species added to list in Oct 2016 -- Hylaeus anthracinus, H. assimulans, H. facilis, H. hilaris, H. kuakea, H. longiceps, and H. mana, but no write-ups from me). I altered some of the formatting by placing this addition in a new section, and shifting Species to its own section. This is still a small article so I'll try to add to it in the coming months regarding population and diversity as able. To the more experienced editors, I apologize for all the mini edits, catching missing periods and italics one at a time.

 GeeBee60 (talk) 15:05, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks GeeBee60, for this addition regarding the newly listed Hawaiian endangered species. I also added a mention of this in Hylaeus longiceps. The other six species did not have articles, so I've now gone ahead and created some stub/starter articles for them (mentioning their new endangered listing). There's plenty more information on these species, in the referenced USFWS PDFs for example, that could be usefully added to expand the articles. Declangi (talk) 10:54, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Back at you Declangi, thanks for the further improvements. Xerces Society has some materials on all 7 species listed, as well as on twenty others, on their Xerces Society: Bees page, under "yellow faced bees". These Xerces write-ups usually cover uncommon / threatened species, rather than the more common ones, leading to a somewhat skewed view, (no doubt based on funding). GeeBee60 (talk) 15:06, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]