Future Bumble Bee price?

[nixer]

60+ snakes. Sweet..Still waiting for some of those pics! We LOVE pics!

ive posted many pics here and i do from time to time.

[jglass38]

ive posted many pics here and i do from time to time.

I couldn't find any when searching back through your posts. I figure with all those cool animals you would want to post up pics!

[nixer]

I couldn't find any when searching back through your posts. I figure with all those cool animals you would want to post up pics!

sure you couldnt because i moved them for more organization not to mention its yet another thing i have not yet finished. just like my rodent racks, remodeling my basement, the 56 F100 restoration, and countless other pokers i have in the fire.

[jglass38]

sure you couldnt because i moved them for more organization not to mention its yet another thing i have not yet finished. just like my rodent racks, remodeling my basement, the 56 F100 restoration, and countless other pokers i have in the fire.

Ahh..I see! Well we would all like to see pics of the collection.

[nixer]

Ahh..I see! Well we would all like to see pics of the collection.

heres some http://photobucket.com/nixer
but so far i only added my spotnoses from this year

[jglass38]

heres some http://photobucket.com/nixer
but so far i only added my spotnoses from this year

Cool!

[nixer]

LOL - He is lazy come on Nix do i need to stop by and take the pics for you

if you stop by you better bring your work clothes because i need to cut some metal for my rodent rack and start getting it welded up i just carried 2 12x12x8' cedar posts out of the basement and im pretty much spent

oh sorry for the thread hijack please contiune the bee discussion.

[Haydenphoto]

if you stop by you better bring your work clothes because i need to cut some metal for my rodent rack and start getting it welded up i just carried 2 12x12x8' cedar posts out of the basement and im pretty much spent

LOL - - - - - NOT ! Ill call you in a few !

[trott]

Like Adam and a few others pointed out if you have breeder stock a male puts you 2 years ahead because of the length of time to reach sexual maturity as opposed to a female, about 3 years so. Already having the stock a male can be put to work quickly. If you don't have the stock females become more valuable but the wait is longer and you can't have enough of them.

[Serpent_Nirvana]

No. Females are more important.

I get what you're saying here 100%, however, I'd like to nit pick words with you

I think, in a way, that your male(s) are more "important" ... Especially if you only have one male for every 4-5 females (which I think most do), that male better be pretty damn special, because he's going to be passing on his genes to an awful lot of babies.

Soooo, trying to bring it back around to the bumblebee discussion , if your male bee is lousy quality, all of his 15+ offspring (assuming you bred him to five girls who laid at least three eggs each) would get his lousy genes. On the other hand, if the bee female you pick up to breed to your triple-co-dom male is a little on the brown side -- at least it's only her clutches that'll be a little bit brown. So in a way, that one male bee is more "important," because he's gonna be influencing the appearance of a larger proportion of your offspring. Your females as a whole may be more important, but each individual is less so.

And again, sorry for nit-picking.