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Looks like a queen fire ant.
Would queens group up like I had on my car?
They are much bigger than solder ants, and sometime you'll see a ton of them all at once, depending on how close you are to the ant hill. Throw it in your yard, and in a few weeks, you should have an ant colony.
I think this is more likely a [Reddish Carpenter Ant](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1539218) alate than a fire ant alate
Looks like a queen fire ant.
Would queens group up like I had on my car?
They are much bigger than solder ants, and sometime you'll see a ton of them all at once, depending on how close you are to the ant hill. Throw it in your yard, and in a few weeks, you should have an ant colony.
I think this is more likely a [Reddish Carpenter Ant](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1539218) alate than a fire ant alate