I beg to differ. Some of the pastels are different and pass along certain traits that others don't . Some get a brown shoulder area while others don't. Some make better supers than others. To be perfectly honest i am not as thrilled as I would expect with lemon super. A real good lemon is hard to beat, even against the super. I would have hoped for a better super, not enough fading. Graziani super is very different from a graziani pastel, nice step up. Lots of fading!

I see it more with things like bumble bees. The lemon bumble bee is very clean, lots of white. My lemon line also produces a lot of neck striping that others don't. One problem with all of these names, people pawn any pastel as this or that. Some of my bumbles from another pastel line are not as clean, more noise in the pattern.



I do not have all of the pastel lines so I do not know all of the lines.



I will say one thing I noticed with the lemons is that they often start as an ugly duckling. I remember hatching the first three and they were stunning but that may have even been because they were the first pastels and I had no idea what I was really looking at, they did not look normal!

I remember waiting to hatch a fantastic male out for a friend and failing for a few years. I wanted to make sure he got a steller animal. Besides having dreadful odds on ratios(females and low pastel counts) I could not hatch out a black and yellow baby. These babies were ok but not what I expected. I sold these not knowing that they take MONTHS to get better. The same as a jungle carpet. I had to find out that I need to hold onto them and watch them as they change through the next 5 or so sheds. I have now learned what to look for in baby lemons, they change so much, lots of sharp contrast with black, yellow and white. My other pastels often start out nice as babies and some get a bit less fantastic as they mature, a bit opposite from the lemons.



Just my take- Kev@NERD
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