The Hyve is a unique creature on Earth. She utilized a unique process of parthenogenic cloning and cellular assimilation to rejuvenate her body and to adapt new evolutionary traits. The original creature was much like a combination of wasp and ant queen. Over successive generations the species added in traits from other, larger species. Not unlike the wasps, the Hyve used surrogates to incubate the young it used for regeneration. When the Hyve reached an evolutionary plateau it would assimilate genes from other species to build into a new generation of Hyve. The current generation uses a primarily humanoid body with the standard insectoid abdomen of the species, scaled to the current size.

The Hyve now scales to a size nearly twice the height of a human, which adapted to the modified surrogate incubator system that it uses. When the Hyve took a mammalian gene sample for the first time it adapted the incubation system to make it easier to keep the surrogate under control. When a surrogate is implanted with the clone the Hyve takes the host into its own body to prevent the surrogate from migrating or gaining defense in a pack. This trait is still used but not immediately.

The first time the Hyve encountered a human tribe it was nearly killed. Shortly thereafter it made the evolutionary jump to a humanoid thorax and secondary abdomen. After some experimentation she developed an electromagnetic field that neutralized almost all perception of her in humans, a technique that she still utilizes. Touch made humans sharply aware of her presence so she adapted a pair of antennae (constructed like a lantern fish's lure) mounted to her shoulder blades that emitted the same frequency but at a stronger level. When in contact with a human's head they would become completely oblivious to her presence and even her touch. These antennae allowed the Hyve to infiltrate a dwelling and impregnate a human female using the tendril ovapositors on the insectoid abdomen, frequently in tandem with the female bearing her own offspring.

As with other mammals, the human gestational period was desynchronized from Hyve's gestational period of nearly two years. This frequently caused a host female to postpone birth until the Hyve clone was mature. If left to their own devices, this would have killed most hosts. Here the Hyve's adaptation of protecting the surrogate in her own body became important. Linking the surrogate to her own adaptive genetic system allowed the Hyve to modify the host's body so as to withstand and provide for the extended pregnancy. To take in the surrogate, the Hyve approaches the female around the eighth month of pregnancy and uses a set of sense-dulling tendrils that line her vaginal walls to draw the incubator into her capacious womb.

The first few times that the Hyve performed this with humans she encountered a problem with initial protein and vitamin supply for the surrogate. There was also a severe social problem among the humans when a female would go missing for over a year, save when the female's mate had died or disappeared beforehand. A quick adaptation in physiology expanded Hyve's digestive system to accommodate a large nutrient supply and her skeletal structure to allow her to consume large prey animals whole. Now when the Hyve takes a female, she swallows the female's mate at the same time to act as the initial nutrient supply.

As an odd secondary function of the Hyve's "pregnancy," the human host gains the ability to perceive and understand the Hyve. Almost all of the women that the Hyve carries volunteer for another session of impregnation and unbirthing. As human's began civilizing the world, Hyve moved to a remote forrested region of the Americas near a small human town. Over the years the town become home to a pseudo-nunnery for the women that Hyve has used as surrogates and their daughters (also aware of Hyve). As a side effect of Hyve's impregnation (particularly if it was conducted in tandem with normal human impregnation) sperm cells carrying a Y chromosome are adversely affected, so that women carrying Hyve's offspring only ever bear female children.

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