This term describes the action of a fertile female bee establishing her dominance and laying eggs to sustain the hive population. Beekeepers use it to describe the status of a hive, noting whether a colony is successfully producing brood or if it has lost its reproductive center. A hive that fails to do this effectively will quickly collapse as older workers die off.
Heard on the job
We need to check if that split managed to queen itself or if we've to order one in.