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Can a spider x hypo mating ever yield honey bees in the first generation, or is that always a two-step process i.e. spider x hypo = spider het hypo, and then spider x spider het hypo = honey bee (maybe) in the second generation?

Ok here is what you would need. Ghost is Recessive trait in the Ball world. You would need one of the following combos to produce the HoneyBee. Spider het Ghost x Spider het Ghost, Spider Het Ghost x Ghost, Spider het Ghost x Het Ghost( or if you have any poss het you might get lucky) I think that is it as far as the combos.

Actually it's the recessive hypo rather than the “some type of dominant” spider that you would need on both sides of the generation that can produce the hypo spider.

However, you could do the generations pretty quick given that you only need the spider on one side so don't have to grow up a female.

For example, breed a spider male to a hypo female (having an adult hypo female is the hard part here). Keep hopefully get a male spiders (all will be het hypo) and keep back which ever one is growing the fastest. Feed him well and you might even be able to breed him back to the already adult hypo female the very next year and each baby would have a 1:4 chance of being a spider hypo.