It is not without cause that Salazzle are called "lizard queens", for their mating habits bear more resemblance to bug pokemon like Durant and Vespiquen than to the far more closely related Charizard. Yet it is easy to take this comparison too far, for Salazzle groups resemble not the typical Durant hill, but what one would look like in the aftermath of constant usurpation and civil war.
Although groups of Salandit headed by a Salazzle are typically called harems, this is a somewhat misleading term, which is at least in part derived from human difficulty in distinguishing male and female Salandit. A Salazzle "harem" contains not only a queen and drones, but many unattached females, who mimic the males in order to build up strength so that they may someday evolve and usurp the queen. They do this by enlisting close friends and allies and those dissatisfied with the current Salazzle queen, but in the finest tradition of human royalty, most of these are queen's own progeny! Male Salandit, after all, wish to assume the role of drone themselves - and while some loyal children wander long distances alone, struggling to find food, until they can enter a new harem, it is far easier for them to overthrow their own mothers!
No harem can feed both its members and two egg-laying Salazzle, and every battle has a loser – whether a young usurper who evolved too soon, or an old queen who spent too many years on the throne. And while Salandit were all born in these harems, only a small minority of Salazzle ever have followers at any particular time. Salazzle spend most of their long lives as exiled, itinerant queens, cease to lay eggs, and plot endlessly, often manipulating human trainers, in order to regain themselves a throne.