The procedure during which ant queens, or royal pairs in the case of termites, seal themselves off in cells: During the course of claustral colony founding,the ant queens rear the first generation of workers on nutrients obtained mostly or entirely from their own storage tissues, including fat bodies and histolysed wing muscles (dissolution and absorption of tissue).

The procedure during which the queen founds the colony by isolating herself in a chamber but occasionally leaves to forage for part of her food supply.