Thank god someone on here knew the right answer. Lessers, butters, mojaves...all gene mutations on the SAME allele. Spiders, pastels...DIFFERENT alleles. That is why you can get normals or bumblebees from a bumblebee X normal breeding.

BUT a BEL X normal is entirely different. A BEL has two copies of the allele in question, a copy that provides the mojave mutation, and the copy that provides the lesser mutation. SO every offspring in the clutch will be either a mojave or a lesser. Same thing with an eightball cinny/black pastel. Bred to a normal it will produce either cinnies or blacks, no normals. While the BEL lesser/mojave isn't CALLED a super, it is a super in a lot of ways. While it is not homozygous for one particular gene it is homozygous for a mutation at the allele in question.

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