Breeding Bumble Bee To Bumble Bee

[Jessica Loesch]

You could save some money by going with a regular bee and an axanthic. The male bees are about 300 right now I believe.

If you go with a bee instead of a killer bee, you will have potential normals, pastels, spiders, and bees all 100% het axanthic.
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I say to do this because if you get a killer bee and breed it to the axanthic, you will get, as you said, pastel het ax and bee het ax. The biggest difference here is that all the babies will at least be pastel het ax, and no normals will come out of it, but you're playing with the odd gods here and I think it's a better move.


After that, you can breed your male bee het ax that you hopefully produce back to the axanthic female and you will hopefully produce the axanthic bee.
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To produce the killer, you would have to raise up a pastel het ax baby and risk the odds to a bee het ax, or get a pastel axanthic initially instead of an axanthic.
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Which brings me back around to my initial recommendation of getting a pastel axanthic, and then get a male bee. Because then you could produce and breed your hopeful bee het ax male back to the pastel axanthic and get your hopeful axanthic killer bee.
I know the pastel axanthics are a bit pricey though.


Producing a recessive based morph that also includes the super form of a codominant morph and another dominant morph is not so easy, takes time, patience, and understanding of the genetics. I suggest you save up for the snakes you need, which you won't have to do much more of if you have 1.1K to spend after you get your racks. I think the pastel axanthics run about that much, maybe a little more, and then you can easily get a bee for about $300. Just save a little longer and you'll be well on your way, and much faster.

It would be a much better investment than buying a killer bee and an axanthic, as the killer bee x axanthic breeding will only produce bees het axanthic and pastel het axanthic, and then when you breed it back to the axanthic, you have ZERO chance at the killer bee. The female and male must both have the pastel gene, and both must have one copy of the axanthic gene (whether they are heterozygous or they are homozygous).

And at the beginning of this post, I recommended buying a bee and an axanthic (NOT a killer bee and an axanthic) for the same reason. Even if you went this cheaper route, it will take you just as long most likely to get to the same point as above, but it will be much, much more affordable.


Hope this helps/makes sense.