genetic question

[robeyeshua]

i have read all types of site's genetic links - nerd's, world of ball pythons, etc. - yet i am still a little confused - my question is this - i have a great 2011 bumblee - i know it is a result of spider and pastel - i want to buy a female to breed at the right age of course for bumbleebee pied - i have money to spend - what exactly do i buy to have the best chance of producing a bumbleebee pied that would be high white - thanks for helping me in advance - many of you have been helping me already and for that i say thank you again

[el8ch]

Well you have one part of the required ingredients. Get a visual PIED female and breed your BEE to her to get some HETS. If you hit a BEE male from that clutch he will be HET PIED and you can breed him back to Momma to get a chance at what you want to make. It's a long term project!

[wwmjkd]

it will be a project that will take a few years, but hopefully worth the payoff. your best bet is to buy a pied female for your bee and breed them in 2013. from that clutch, you will get either pastels, spiders, bees, or normals, all of which will be het for pied. if you hatch out a male bee, you could breed her back to the pied female and your odds should be decent to produce a pied bumblebee (either 1/8 or 1/16 depending on how bad my math is this morning).

just remember that the pied gene is a simple recessive and the bumblebee carries a dominant and codominant trait. if you breed a bee x normal, you have a 25% chance of producing more bees. if you breed a 100% het pied to a homozygous or visual pied, you have a 50% chance of producing another piebald. unless you buy a breeding pair of pieds and spiders/pastels, you're probably 4-5 years away from producing your own bumblebee pied.

hope this helps. if i've made any errors, I'm sure someone with more experience on here can correct me.

[Jessica Loesch]

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You cannot get a pied bee from one mating unless your bee were het pied already. You'll have to make one . . . Good luck.