The young virgin queen has a limited time to mate.

In that time the colony will have sent out numerous males and virgin queens to found new colonies.

They fly out from their parent colony in search of other colonies where virgin queens wait for them.

The virgin queen of mountains, perhaps the highest Earth has ever borne.

In less than one year's time, a single queen can mother several thousands of workers, males, and new virgin queens.

The fertilized eggs develop into either workers or virgin queens.

Males and virgin queens are produced during the second year.

There, she'd joined a swarm of flying males and other virgin queens.

Historians have long been in debate over the subject of whether the "virgin" queen was really that.

The virgin queens arriving here will be fertilized by artificial in.