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[Apex]

Recently I've been noticing far more of the founding chambers I have dug up of this species have had several queens in them 4-8 respectively. Now I know some pogonomyrmex species might bud in large groups and found together initially, usually the dominant queens with the aid of the workers kill the other queens. However in the past two years which I have experimented with this species,  some of my larger colonies that have several queens and multiple workers are still not acting aggressive towards one another. Is it possible that subdentatus similarly to subdinitus can be polygynous? 

[Somethinghmm]

A good portion of species have a polygynous variety that is limited to certain areas.

Edited by Somethinghmm, October 28 2019 - 9:22 AM.

[Apex]

A good portion of species have a polygynous variety that is limited to certain areas.

While that is true subdentatus branches off from the occidentalis sub species in a way. So polygyny would definitely be odd. Is there any other possible explanation?