My First Hatchlings From Thailand

[GenePirate]

I would think it would be named different than the queenbee. If a butter was a lesser than it would be sold as a lesser. There are butterbees and there are lesserbees. Maybe contact Ralph Davis and ask him if he has produced one, and if so what did he call it?

I agree. Ralph told me a few months ago that lessers and butters, although they are genetically very similar (if not the same) came from two different lines of his. The lesser platinum is from his Platty Daddy, and is more creamy while the butter is from his Butter Daddy line and is definitely more yellow. If that's the case, then in order to keep both lines separate, the butter bumblebee has to be called something other than a queen bee. --Or else the follow up question to every purchase will be "Is this queen bee from a butter lineage or a lesser?" And, I could see where the line of demarkation between butter and lesser will get very smudged, if it isn't already.