"So, at best this is 1/4 "bumble bee", right?"



Actually, I collected both grandparents on the mothers' side in the same spot on the hill that John and I call "bumblebee hill", so this years' offspring is actually 1/2 "bumblebee" although the namesake originated from markings on the WC grandmother. The fact that the baby also has blood from John's "busy ridge" donut female... IMHO one of the most spectacularly novel snakes to have been caught around Sanderson... is just a huge bonus.



As far as the locality issue, I totally agree. It means more to some than others and it does come down totally to trust. Definitions of what constitutes a locality animal vary... and for that reason I can count the number of people I'd get snakes from on one hand. Locality seems to mean the most to those who collect alterna, and years ago I never once considered that some of those keeping locality snakes were doing so by default ("pretty" snakes after all had to come from somewhere). A registry, pedigrees, and provenance can't fix things because they can be fabricated... but they IMHO remain a solid tool for those with a legitimate interest in maintaining locality and locality-representitive collections.

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