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Can a single queen start a colony with multiple queens by herself? Thanks! :D It takes a while for a colony to mature, but if the fertile queen is healthy and is well taken care of I'm sure she can produce queen alates but queens will only mate in the air during their flights and rarely mate in cap...

I caught 6 Camponotus sp., about 10 Peidole sp. and so many S. invicta I had to release some. That storm that came through Georgia helped out no doubt

If you are going to put the queens together I would go ahead and do it before they lay too many eggs. I put my Solenopsis queens 2-3 queens per tube. But I don't think your queens would have a problem starting a colony on their own.

If they are the same species then could put them together and hope they're polygynous.

They all have eggs and are still healthy. I still don't know what they are, but I think I ruled out Brachymyrmex sp. There are twelve antenna segments and I was told that rules them out for being Brachymyrmex sp.

wow! What are you gonna do with em all? Lol, just think that if you hadn't caught them they would have all made nests in your yard :shock: If I hadn't have caught them they would have died lol. I found most of them on the surface of my pool. And I don't know what I'm going to do with them. Maybe I'...

Solenopsis invicta flew on 4/23/2016 we a had short, but heavy, afternoon thunderstorms the day before. I captured about 85 queens :D I'm putting 2-3 per test tube and I'm pretty sure most of them, if not all, are mated. I caught all of them in my backyard from one spot, in front of my pool filter s...

Mdrogun wrote:This is Solenopsis invicta without a doubt.

Thank you very much! I thought they may have been invicta too, I just wanted to be sure because I had never seen a Solenopsis queen before finding these two.

I've gotten some close ups on one of these queens that those to keep her wings (I picked one at random). I'm still not sure what they are :| http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g342/i2chip/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-04/ED6768FA-45C1-4299-9B35-8AFE4314CE61_zpsaid9j1by.jpg http://i1097.photobucket.com/albu...

ok how are u getting such good close ups? I use my LG stylis and when I try to get that close its blury. I zoom in and out and still blury lol I guess I need to get a white sheet of paper or something to help my phone cam focus lol I bought a clip on micro lens for my iPhone 6s, I'm sure it would w...