"As ever, the queen is blameless and emerges with utmost credit."

The queen emerges in the spring after hibernating through the winter, and goes looking for a nest site.

If all worked out well, a new queen and two new princes would emerge from the molting ahead.

We have all eaten of her flesh, and a new queen emerged from the last of her young.

The hibernating queens emerge quite early, in late January.

When the new queens emerge, they typically leave to mate, and most die.

Should two queens emerge simultaneously, they are thought to fight to the death.

In early spring the queens emerge from hibernation to look for a nesting cavity.

The queen emerges early in the spring, the males later, late May to early June.

When spring arrives, the young queens emerge and the cycle begins again.