We've had a lot of rain recently, and with the warmer weather also upon is, the fire ants are very active. I have one long colony that runs about 4 feet on each side of, and all the way across my driveway through the gap between 2 concrete slabs. I saw maybe a half dozen queens with the thousands of others, and they were being constantly harassed by larger workers. The large worker would try to drag the queens down into their holes. The queens seemed to get away, or at least each one I watched did.