My first clutch of this year is hatching and I was just hoping for at least one bumble bee from the pairing. The pairing was a virgin Pastel female to my (proven by a distant past owner) Spider male. 2 of the 7 eggs pipped so I cut the rest and was amazed to see that none of them look to be normals or regular pastels (I was expecting at least 2!). It looks like 6 bees and 1 regular spider. According to WOBP only about 1/4 of the clutch should have been bees. I could see being very lucky with maybe 3 or 4 but 6? and having the spider gene in all 7 babies with no normals and no pastels seemed weird to me to have that kind of luck. I have read that there is no super spider or that it's lethal or something like that but his genes are definitely dominating this clutch. I was wanting a bee to change over to a 2 gene male for my pastel girl next year but now I'm not so sure I shouldn't hold him another year and see if I get the same odds next year. What do you think?