The main bonus of getting this female over a regular spider would be if you also have an albino gene male and/or want to eventually try for albino spiders. But for the bumblebee project the het albino part doesn't make much difference.

But it’s always nice to have more options for how to use a single animal. I'd like to only get males with shots at two genes from now on (price permitting). It’s nice to only take up one cage and one feed bill for more than one project. It’s a little less flexible on the female side because you can only get at most one clutch a year but with some luck you could even have two fathers for that clutch.

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