Abnormal Bee?

[MS2]

I do not think it is abnormal. Sadly, i think you just produced or bought a very low quality bee.
But, it is defiantly not a spider. just a not so good bee.

She is the ugly duckling of the clutch for sure, but it sounds like there will be no swan at the end of this story...lol

[evan385]

Looks like a spider to me

Why would you think it's a spider? Maybe you can't tell the difference? It's very obviously a low quality bee. Sorry man better luck next clutch and i've heard of low quality morphs producing high quality morphs so you can still use her.

[MS2]

Why would you think it's a spider? Maybe you can't tell the difference? It's very obviously a low quality bee. Sorry man better luck next clutch and i've heard of low quality morphs producing high quality morphs so you can still use her.

I can't complain about the clutch. 7 eggs= 3 Bumble bees, 3 pastels and 1 normal. I hope to hit odds like those in the future.

One "dirty" bee isn't too bad.

[akjadlnfkjfdkladf]

not trying to sound rude or whatever but if you want to avoid this same scenario in the future I wouldn't breed it

people hold back holdbacks for a reason

[MS2]

not trying to sound rude or whatever but if you want to avoid this same scenario in the future I wouldn't breed it

people hold back holdbacks for a reason

She's definitly not the nicest bee, but she IS a 2 gene animal. To me that's a better breeder that a "normal".

[evan385]

I can't complain about the clutch. 7 eggs= 3 Bumble bees, 3 pastels and 1 normal. I hope to hit odds like those in the future.

One "dirty" bee isn't too bad.

Awesome, I hope I have that kind of luck when I breed my pastel and spider in a couple years.

[CLSpider]

She's definitly not the nicest bee, but she IS a 2 gene animal. To me that's a better breeder that a "normal".

Personally, I would rather have a really nice normal or one gene snake, than a low quality two gene snake....
If I were to keep that bee, she would be a pet only.

[Serpent_Nirvana]

I was just thinking that she looked odd( having no yellow, AT ALL), but I guess it happens more than I thought. I have never seen a bumble bee for sale that looks like her. Do breeders that produces these "dirty" bees sell them or just not even offer them for sale?

I think a lot of times the photos you see the most of a given morph are of really nice specimens of that morph. If you do a Google image search for "pastel ball python" you get a whole bunch of pictures of nice pastels, but if you look at the adult pastels for sale in the classifieds, most are pretty sub-awesome.

Just as there are animals in the top 10% tier of appearance, so there must be animals in the bottom 10% tier as well, and those might look "different" because they aren't average-looking. Honestly though, I have seen plenty of bees that look like that. I think you just don't see their pictures all over the Internet as much as the flashy ones.

[snakesRkewl]

She's definitly not the nicest bee, but she IS a 2 gene animal. To me that's a better breeder that a "normal".

Am I allowed to completely disagree with this statement
Quality is what gets you animals that people will want to buy.

I have normal adult females I'd much rather breed than a dirty browned out bee that will throw more dirty pastels and more dirty bee's.
I'd think twice about doing that pairing again.

[AK907]

She is cute, though. She has character.