Breeding Question

I have a question ... I hope this does not sound too stupid. I was watching a video of eggs hatching from someone who bred his Spider female with both a Lesser and a Pastel male. The hatchlings were a mixtures of Lessers, Spiders, Lesser Bees, and Bumblebees.. I know Lesser x Spider makes Lesser Bees and Spider x Pastel makes Bumblebees .. How does this all happen at the same time? I assumed the female can only take the genes from one male (become impregnated by only one)... Am I wrong? Can someone explain this to me!! This is not the first time I have seen the female being bred with more than one male, I know that is normal .. Just how is everything mixed together like that?

A female can have more than one baby daddie ( pardon the expression) per litter. One sperm has to meet one egg. A female BP produces many eggs so they can be fertilised by more than one male. This happens in a lot of animals puppies from the same litter can have more than one sire. A human can even have twins by two different men. It just depends on how many partners she has when she's fertile, and whos swimmers get to the egg.

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Originally Posted by ed4281

A female can have more than one baby daddie ( pardon the expression) per litter. One sperm has to meet one egg. A female BP produces many eggs so they can be fertilised by more than one male. This happens in a lot of animals puppies from the same litter can have more than one sire. A human can even have twins by two different men. It just depends on how many partners she has when she's fertile, and whos swimmers get to the egg.

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Really??? Wow...Can't imagine what kind of havoc it will cause....

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Originally Posted by shakyhand

Really??? Wow...Can't imagine what kind of havoc it will cause....

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Frankly I'm HOPING some of my females have multi-sired clutches when they breed...I plan to toss my Mojave and Pastel males in with my Mojave female...my Pastel and Cinnamon males in with my normal female...and once I get a pinstripe female I plan to expose her to almost every male I've got. :twisted: I'll consider it winning the lottery if a clutch from one female has many sires...the only exception being a het male and pos. het female I'm getting. Until I prove her one way or the other, he's the only male she'll meet. ;)