Lawnring/ID

A lawnring is the designated circle of land around a hive which, when located on grassed area, is expected to be maintained by the hiveowner. Lack of lawnring maintenance on the part of a hiveowner is considered grounds for culling.

While there is no official mandated physical boundary between a lawnring and the surrounding area, it is common practice in subgrubs for hiveowners to cut the outer ring of the lawnring shorter in order to make it clear which area is within the lawnring and which is outside. This ring of mowed grass itself is often incorrectly referred to as 'the lawnring'. In subgrubs with lesser or no access to official roads, interconnected networks of these 'lawnrings' are frequently utilized as foot and lusus tracks.

Within subgrubs the term 'lawnring' is often used colloquially to refer to the hive and anything else contained within the bounds of the lawnring proper - or more rarely to refer to the contents of larger connected networks of 'lawnrings' - such as in the phrase "more common lawnrings," referring to lowblood subgrubs.