Nope, no regular spiders -- just bumblebees and pastels.Originally Posted by TessadasExotics
The killerbee is homozygous for pastel on the pastel locus (meaning that it has two pastel alleles) -- it has no normal genes to give. It can ONLY give a pastel gene to its offspring, so all of the offspring, if bred to a normal, will have to have the pastel gene.
On the spider locus, the killerbee has two different alleles: a spider allele and an normal allele. So, it can give either a spider or a normal allele at that locus.
So, since all of the offspring have to have a pastel gene, but may or may not have the spider gene, they will either be pastels or "bumblebees." There won't be any normals or regular spiders.
I've never heard of the Black Widow -- have to Google that one!
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