"I don't know about you but I've never seen a morph just automatically come out without getting it from the wild or breeding to animals from a short lineage or right out of the wild..."



Luke,



I discussed this with my wife and must retract my previous statement. While the possibilty of a bumble bee in the wild is theoretically possible humans "selectively " breed these animals for there specific traits. Therefore, I do not consider this "naturally occuring". An albino or axanthic, for instance, do pop up on occassion. This would be selective breeding to produce an already existing mutation and not creating phenotypes of multiple traits. Or possibly even a completely different trait as a result. Much like an albino human or someone with two different colored eyes. How about Down's syndrome? Now, you have seen all these traits on people in your lifetime, but when is the last time you have seen an albino human with down's syndrome that has two different colored eyes? Theoretically this may be possible, but I do not consider this "natural". Also, I can not recall the last time I heard of an albino spider ball from an importer. We purposely breed to replicate these particular traits in hopes of a completely different phenotype, and IMO this is not considered a natural occurance.



I also think one of the key statements you said was, "breeding from a short lineage". You comment, " coming right out of the wild", this is what I was referring too when I said breed the animals that are naturally occurring. My last few statements could have been written clearer, so this may have been the cause of some misinterpretation.



Todd

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