Lesser bee X Silver Bullet

[GenePirate]

Thanks, Casey, for your vote of confidence.

Let me try to explain this further for everyone so that we're all on the same page.

Assuming Graziani and NERD are correct—which I do, then I would call the silver bullet CCPp (C=cinny, P=pastel, p=normal in place of second pastel locus). The lesser bee would be LlSs (L=lesser, l=normal in place of a second lesser gene, S=spider, s=normal gene where we’re assuming there is no second S, no homozygous spider.)

The silver bullet will always throw a cinny gene, plus either a pastel or a normal, so CP or Cp. The lesser bee will throw one of the following: LS, Ls, lS, ls. So you could end up with equal chances of each of these 8 combos:

CPLS, cinnamon queen bee
CPLs, cinnamon lesser pastel
CPlS, cinnamon bumble bee
CPls, pewter
CpLS, cinnamon lesser bee
CpLs, lesser cinnamon
CplS, cinnabee
Cpls, cinnamon

If you want to do your own Punnett, CP and Cp across the top (there are no other combos for these two traits), and the four LS combos down the side (2 x 4 = 8).

If you’re thinking black pastel in place of cinny, just substitute B for C, or whichever letter you choose, and rename as appropriate.