forgive my ignorance - still learning

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and then if i got a male bee - it would be het albino and i could breed it back to the mother to have a chance for a whacked out albino??

You'd get 50% possible hets from breeding a bumblebee to a het albino. If you held back a bee to breed to its mother, there's a chance you could get albinos but only if the bee you held back proves to be a het.