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five castes being present in established colonies - minims 1 (or 'garden ants'), minors 2, mediae 3 and majors 4 (also called soldiers or dinergates) being present. Why fifth caste is not mentioned? Verdi1 06:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
The fifth is presumably the queen.
The main text has been changed to say "four" castes, not including the queen.
But there is still a problem. The lede says "three" castes -- worker, soldier, and queen. The contradiction (four vs. three) needs to be fixed. 70.179.92.117 ( talk) 22:24, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Removed thread that repeated the copyvio from the article. jonkerz ♠ talk 13:14, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Ping Ukexpat.
Does the ticket ( ticket:2016041610000512) say which paragraphs are affected by this? I found this in the 3rd edition of The Insects, an Outline of Entomology ( ISBN 1-4051-1113-5), p. 228: "Leaf-cutter ants dominate the ecosystems in which they occur; some grassland Atta species consume as much vegetation per hectare as domestic cattle, and certain rainforest species are estimated to cause up to 80% of all leaf damage and to consume up to 17% of all leaf production."
From Atta (genus)#Diet: "Leafcutter ants tend to dominate the ecosystems they inhabit. Some grassland Atta species colonies consume as much vegetation per hectare as domestic cattle. Certain rainforest species are estimated to cause up to 80% of all leaf damage and to consume up to 17% of all leaf production."
jonkerz ♠ talk 13:11, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Cool, thanks ukexpat. Great finds, SmartSE, not sure how you managed to find them. I'll go ahead and restore the article without the content added by the user. I have a great deal of patience with new contributors and do not mind cleaning up articles, but without access to the all the sources, I'm not too happy to cleanup content with this many issues (copyvio, using general references for genus articles, large sections of unreferenced content, incomplete references).
Also pretty much copied from The Insects, an Outline of Entomology, p. 226-227: "When the leaves finally reach the nest, other individuals lick the waxy cuticle off the leaves and chew it up into small pieces. Next, they inoculate the leaves with a fecal cocktail of enzymes from their hindgut. This initiates the digestion of the newly chewed leaves." (#Diet on WP)
We can look more closely at the other sections later. Right now just having an article is the top priority, and it has been unreadable for 10 days already. jonkerz ♠ talk 16:51, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
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five castes being present in established colonies - minims 1 (or 'garden ants'), minors 2, mediae 3 and majors 4 (also called soldiers or dinergates) being present. Why fifth caste is not mentioned? Verdi1 06:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
The fifth is presumably the queen.
The main text has been changed to say "four" castes, not including the queen.
But there is still a problem. The lede says "three" castes -- worker, soldier, and queen. The contradiction (four vs. three) needs to be fixed. 70.179.92.117 ( talk) 22:24, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Removed thread that repeated the copyvio from the article. jonkerz ♠ talk 13:14, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Ping Ukexpat.
Does the ticket ( ticket:2016041610000512) say which paragraphs are affected by this? I found this in the 3rd edition of The Insects, an Outline of Entomology ( ISBN 1-4051-1113-5), p. 228: "Leaf-cutter ants dominate the ecosystems in which they occur; some grassland Atta species consume as much vegetation per hectare as domestic cattle, and certain rainforest species are estimated to cause up to 80% of all leaf damage and to consume up to 17% of all leaf production."
From Atta (genus)#Diet: "Leafcutter ants tend to dominate the ecosystems they inhabit. Some grassland Atta species colonies consume as much vegetation per hectare as domestic cattle. Certain rainforest species are estimated to cause up to 80% of all leaf damage and to consume up to 17% of all leaf production."
jonkerz ♠ talk 13:11, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Cool, thanks ukexpat. Great finds, SmartSE, not sure how you managed to find them. I'll go ahead and restore the article without the content added by the user. I have a great deal of patience with new contributors and do not mind cleaning up articles, but without access to the all the sources, I'm not too happy to cleanup content with this many issues (copyvio, using general references for genus articles, large sections of unreferenced content, incomplete references).
Also pretty much copied from The Insects, an Outline of Entomology, p. 226-227: "When the leaves finally reach the nest, other individuals lick the waxy cuticle off the leaves and chew it up into small pieces. Next, they inoculate the leaves with a fecal cocktail of enzymes from their hindgut. This initiates the digestion of the newly chewed leaves." (#Diet on WP)
We can look more closely at the other sections later. Right now just having an article is the top priority, and it has been unreadable for 10 days already. jonkerz ♠ talk 16:51, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
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