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queening

7.9

The act of bringing a new female bee that lays eggs into a hive

noun
/ˈkwēniŋ/

Jargon

: introducción de reina

The process of queening involves introducing a new queen bee into the hive to ensure the colony stays healthy.

Examples

After weeks of preparation, the beekeeper finally completed the queening of the hive with a young, vigorous queen.
Successful queening is essential for maintaining a productive and thriving beehive.
And then you find that queen and she looks good and the bees look good.
So you need to have this capacity within the bees that one of them can then become a queen if that's needed.
But there are no dead bee bodies, just a lonely live queen and her baby brood.
That's what I mean night queen bee when I say decide who you're going to be today.
That's what I mean night queen bee when I say decide who you're going to be today.
But first breakfast the queen heads for a citrus Grove full of honeybee hives.

Surface Forms

queening singular

queening plural

Morphology

queening = queen (semi-transparent) = queen + ing

The form is clearly 'queen' + '-ing', but the beekeeping sense is specialized and not obvious to many learners.

Etymology

Queening comes from queen meaning 'female ruler' and the ending -ing meaning 'the act of'. In beekeeping it means introducing or raising a 'queen bee', so queening is the process of making a new queen for the hive.