Apivar

[Tod]

Hi folks, I got a delivery of twenty mated queens at the begging of september, three ended up being drone layers so contacted the supplier and got told something must have happened after introduction e.g varoa treatment, I use Apivar strips. As far as I know poor mating or a Queen running out causes them to become a drone layer, is there any evidence that the strips can cause this to happen ?

 

[Swarm]

Not to my knowledge, sounds more like poorly mated queens.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

some queens just run out of juice, it happens. The supplier would have proven them before sending them, did they lay normally on introduction?