queen bees
Colony's egg-layers
Queen bees are the fertile females at the center of a hive, the only ones that reproduce.
Each colony has one queen, and her presence organizes the entire social structure.
Figuratively, a queen bee is a woman who dominates a social group, often one who excludes or intimidates other women: She was the queen bee of the cheerleading squad.
- hiveBee dwelling structure
- hive mindUnified group consciousness
- honeycombWax matrix of hexagons
- caste systemHereditary class division
- royal jellyWorker bee secretion for larvae
laying eggs · worker caste · pollination · alpha · colony · swarming · brood · matriarch · apiary · buzzing · throne · cells · eggs · wax · pheromones · propolis · sting · larvae
- student typesjocks, kindergartners, nerds, first graders, geeks
- stingless beeshoney pots, cerumen
- animal behavioranimal behavior, instincts, learned behavior, conditioning, social behavior
queen beesworker bees
Hive's female laborers
drones · workers · drone bees · foragers
queen beesoutcasts
Rejected, excluded people
wallflowers · followers · subordinates · nobodies · underdogs
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