Sentence:  The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her <WSD>eggs</WSD> like a mother hen , taking a sip from time to time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds