Breeding Question

[kaitm89]

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?

[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.

[shakyhand]

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.

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

[coldbloodaddict]

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

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[Kyle@theHeathertoft]

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. 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.