Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
It's not a situation of overcrowding as described by Manley.
I find the Manley quote interesting as it suggests a coincidental combination of factors. The overcrowding bit is actually, irrelevant. He could have mistaken the trigger. The point of posting it was to add context to the idea that there could well be more than one thing happening.

We appear to have no clear sightings of the queen mating (presumably multiple times) even though she's in such close proximity to the observer. So unless Amm queens mate while settled in a stationary cluster I can't really see how AVM can be claimed.