So many queen

[Nocommentstd]

Hi! I live in Hungary and i found under a rock 20-30 queen ant. They have wings. They workers are VERY SMALL and red. What species is this? And these girls are polygyne? (Sorry for my bad english)
---Images---: https://imgur.com/a/RHTcA5n

[Nocommentstd]

This is the best image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DMvDCzWv7idb3WbBPPiL5OLFMJ9dH-Tp/view?usp=drivesdk

[Alexander]

Noo why did you do that...
Those queens are infertil!
The sp. im almost sure is solenopsis fugax they have their nupcial flyght, were all the queens mate, later this year!
You unfortunatly just killed a bunch of queens...

[Ltislander]

Noo why did you do that...
Those queens are infertil!
The sp. im almost sure is solenopsis fugax they have their nupcial flyght, were all the queens mate, later this year!
You unfortunatly just killed a bunch of queens...

How do you know that they are not mated?

[Nocommentstd]

Noo why did you do that...
Those queens are infertil!
The sp. im almost sure is solenopsis fugax they have their nupcial flyght, were all the queens mate, later this year!
You unfortunatly just killed a bunch of queens...

Whats happen if i place them under the rock?

[AntnoobSG]

[quote=Alexander post_id=49323 time=<a href="tel:1536015800">1536015800</a> user_id=7337]
Noo why did you do that...
Those queens are infertil!
The sp. im almost sure is solenopsis fugax they have their nupcial flyght, were all the queens mate, later this year!
You unfortunatly just killed a bunch of queens...

How do you know that they are not mated?
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From what Alexander said,the queens are solenopsis and solenopsis isn’t polygenus(many egg-laying queens in a colony).so those winged ants are alates

[Hunter36o]

Solenopsis scares me in the fact a single queen can make a super colony. I mean 1 queen to 1,000,000 workers. That is a woman I do not want to be on the wrong side of. And if I am not mistaken they do not accept new queen's when their current dies. It is seriously interesting but again scary how a single queen makes them colonies.

But yeah if they are solenopsis and you do not have them for a week then you can attempt to return them. Btw how on earth are you holding solenopsis alates and are not being stung..... Now I am second guessing the species if I am honest. Solenopsis are aggressive by nature of I am not mistaken.

[Hunter36o]

Never mind they are almost the spitting image of Solenopsis fugax. These as I literally just read are thief ants are will pray on other ant nests and steal their food.

Aggressive by nature, will not hesitate to use its stinger are not a multi queen species.

[Alexander]

I know that they are infertil because solenopsis fugax are late flyers what i mean by that is they have their nupcial flyghts later in the year around mid September!
You cant place the queens back under the rock because the colony will not recognize them as their own anymore and will just kill them...
The queens are helpless, there is nothing you can do now...

[Nocommentstd]

I know that they are infertil because solenopsis fugax are late flyers what i mean by that is they have their nupcial flyghts later in the year around mid September!
You cant place the queens back under the rock because the colony will not recognize them as their own anymore and will just kill them...
The queens are helpless, there is nothing you can do now...

Okay thanks! There is a big rain, but the rain is gone i will place them under the rock! sorry i don't know how thats queens are not mated! But after that i will dont flip over the rocks!