Hundreds of Queens

[JPSMedeiros]

Hello guys, the summer is comming to my country(Brazil) and the queens are showing up. Today when I arrived home I noticed A LOT of queen ant's of a small specie, I've seen more than 50 queens in a very small radius, probably much much more around that I haven't seen. Yesterday rained a lot and today is very hot, if u guys want some pictures I can provide some. Is this number of queens normal? Please share your experiences, thanks.

[Batspiderfish]

There are times and places where you can't not find queens.

[JPSMedeiros]

Yeah, most of the times I can't find queen ant's,but now...

Before the night I went outside to check the Queens and I noticed that they were gone. And then I noticed small holes on the ground, the ant's were digging their chambers, I could see them going outside to leave the small pieces of ground. It's very cool to see that happening in the natural world.

[JPSMedeiros]

Just wondering if 20 holes on the ground with queens will give me 20 new colonies, this may become a mess in the future.

[Batspiderfish]

It's better to leave them alone after they've made it so far as to make their founding chamber (in my opinion).

[ooper01]

Just wondering if 20 holes on the ground with queens will give me 20 new colonies, this may become a mess in the future.

I suspect some of those will not survive. For the ones that do survive, it will be a case of "which colony can grow the fastest". Many times in situations like this, these tightly-packed colonies will eventually face off in territorial battles leaving the strongest colony alive.