"Forest Princess" is small compared to normal queens, not compared to normal members of the hive. We have the introductory steps to plant digestion. We have a vomiting thing that could be converted into honey production. We have the X.E.D.S. that could be incorporated into Ruminant to make wood-eaters, our existing ruminants are useful, but need more work. We are going to be putting more work into food production eventually, and the forests will naturally grow more useful with time. We can either ignore them, attempt to put them to some other use, like glue-production or some sort of awkward bug-or-slave powered lumbermill for support beams or log walls or something, or we can set up queens for additional manpower which will naturally grow more parity with food queens over time as we continue to diversify food production, unless we are going to stop with that where we are?
Meanwhile, I suspect that there may be some votes going to Novico in order to avoid a forest-design. I don't want to be overtly hostile to Novico, but it really really looks to me like it is a boss-monster instead of an egg-factory. A boss-monster is a queen suited to low production and low investment, which means forest queen. It is explicitly hostile to "others" which could easily turn into determined rebellion. It could have some use for sitting on dangerous frontier positions with low food production, but that is what fortifications are for. A boss-monster only helps once the fortifications have fallen... Really, as far as I can tell, a vote for Novico is a vote for spending our queen design on making better boss-monsters.
I have a really difficult time imagining Lamana being effective at that size. I do like the mad science of it and the focus on smaller critters is interesting, but do we have enough smaller critters? It is basically only hunters at this point, or does it get some sort of free helper drone? It is really interesting but, ouch, such a diversion from established wisdom, it is just difficult to support it.