Bumblebee's

I heard somewhere that if you breed a Bee with a normal do you get:
25% Normal
25% Spider
25% Pastel
25% Bee
Is that true?

I actually believe it is

50% Spider
50% Pastel

Those are for each egg of course...

I could be wrong....

No, it is

25% Bumble Bee
25% Spider
25% Pastel
25% Normal

I have one. Just got him a couple of weeks ago.

Oh ok cool, glad to be proven wrong

Now when doing a punnet square..how would that be set up?

(Sorry don't mean to hijack your thread)

Bumble Bee = ?

Normal = NN

To make a bee you breed a pastel to a spider. Bees are double homozygous. This means that they carry both dominant genes (for pastel and spider). The odds are only what combo will show up. Both genes = Bee, Spider gene = spider, Pastel gene = Pastel.

Not sure how the punnett would look though.

Oh god I feel so stupid...I just did a punnet and got the %25

I really don't know what I was thinking, oh well get more practice / understanding in my belt.

Thank you for fixing my boo-boo

No biggie. I had no idea until my Bee breeder told me. I was going to buy a pied. he suggested the bee instead. Said it was a better investment in the beginning, get the pied next year. So i bought him.

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Originally Posted by Roswell

To make a bee you breed a pastel to a spider. Bees are double homozygous. This means that they carry both dominant genes (for pastel and spider). The odds are only what combo will show up. Both genes = Bee, Spider gene = spider, Pastel gene = Pastel.

Not sure how the punnett would look though.

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How do you figure? They are both het for the spider and pastel gene. If what you were saying was true, you would not be able to make killer bee's, as they are homozygous for pastel.

Robin

Bumblebee Spider • Bumblebee Ball Pythons are the first "double dominant" morph. These are a combination of the Pastel Jungle and Spider genes. .....

Killer Bee Spider • ..... Killer Bee Spiders are a Super Pastel Jungle version of the Bumblebee Spider "designer" morph. ......

(found these definitions on BPM Genetics Lab)

http://www.ballpythonmorphs.com/genetics.html

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Originally Posted by Roswell

Not sure how the punnett would look though.

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Ss = spider
Pp = pastel

SsPp x sspp

.... SP Sp sP sp
sp SsPp Sspp ssPp sspp
25% 25% 25% 25%