 Those of the general "Tapinoma", "Pheidole" or "Tetramorium" can completely destroy a young nest in order to feed on larvae and pupae, and the foundress has to found a new nest from scratches or steal a nest from another foundress.Nest predation and queen usurpation in this species are very common, as well as premature death of the foundress/Queen.In this case, workers reproduce and rear their own offspring, made of males and doomed to extinction, without producing reproductive females.