DLQ turned good?

[Apiarisnt]

I have had a colony with a DLQ for about three weeks, confirmed both by the SBI two weeks ago and a senior member of my BKA a week ago. None of us could find the miscreant to dispatch her.

Tonight I went to do the dirty deed, turf them all out and put a QC under the brood box. Instead I found little drone brood left, just some scattered remnants on a couple of outer frames, but in the middle was one frame with a neat patch of sealed worker brood, surrounded by larvae, surrounded by eggs almost filling a 14 x 12 frame.

Has any one come across a DLQ that turned right?

 

[masterBK]

I have come a few such queens in the past. Probably couldn't get her "gear" working properly at first to release the sperm to fertilsie the eggs. Had one queen that started up laying again after the winter brood gap laying just unfertilised eggs but a month or so later it sorted itself out.

 

[SDM]

Isn't it more likely that you had an old queen and her supersedure daughter? Obviously not if they were marked but were they ?

 

[Apiarisnt]

Isn't it more likely that you had an old queen and her supersedure daughter? Obviously not if they were marked but were they ?

Colony had swarmed some weeks earlier and had been broodless until the drone brood appeared

 

[iann41]

Over the years I've had one or two that given enough time, came good after starting off as DLQ. As MasterBK suggests, some just need a little time to 'sort' themselves out.

 

[beeno]

Isn't it more likely that you had an old queen and her supersedure daughter? Obviously not if they were marked but were they ?

Time gap is perfect for a new queen!