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means The one fertile female in a honeybee colony, whose job is laying eggs while the workers run the hive around her — also used for a woman who dominates a social group.

from From Old English 'cwen,' meaning woman or wife, which in its highest sense meant a female ruler — the same root gives us 'queen' the monarch. 'Queen bee' as the insect term dates to naturalists noticing the hive's single breeding female and borrowing the royal title for her, even though — as any beekeeper will tell you — her status comes entirely from being fed royal jelly as a larva, not from any birthright. The human usage, for a woman who rules her social circle, followed naturally from there.