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When you breed a Bumble bee to a pastel?
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Dave
Phila, PA

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Alright I am pretty sure I got this right. I Biology was my strongest subject. So I did the Punnett Square on this breeding and my results came up as if you got a clutch of 8 eggs that hatched with perfect odds according to genetics.

1 - Normal
1 - Spider
1 - Super Pastel
1 - Killer Bee
2 - Pastels
2 - Bumble Bees

Now the chances actually break down to individual eggs so each egg that hatches has the following percent chances for each morph

12.5% - Normal, Spider, Super Pastel, Killer Bee
25.0% - Pastel, Bumble Bee

PS Ps pS ps
Ps PPSs PPss PpSs Ppss
ps PpSs Ppss ppSs ppss
Ps PPSs PPss PpSs Ppss
ps PpSs Ppss ppSs ppss

Top animal is bumble bee x pastel on the side. Big P is pastel gene and big S is the spider gene.
2 Killer Bee
2 Super Pastel
4 Bumble Bee
4 Pastel
2 Spider
2 Normal

Hope this helps,
Nick

.........PS.......Ps.......pS.......ps
Ps...PPSs..PPss...PpSs...Ppss
ps....PpSs..Ppss...ppSs...ppss
Ps...PPSs..PPss...PpSs...Ppss
ps....PpSs..Ppss...ppSs...ppss

It looked better the first time i did it. lol

LOL.... If you look at it we have the same outcome except you have it done with 16 hatchlings and I did it with 8
The percentages are the same you just doubled the number of animals.

I was just talking to a friend of mine who also does a lot of ball python breeding. We were discussing various morph crosses. Over the past two breeding seasons he has had 28 eggs laid from breeding bumblebee's to pastels and has still not gotten a killer bee. I have had higher than average morphs hatch from some clutches and I have been "skunked" on some clutches. Best you can do is keep trying.
Bruce Delles c/o Twin Cities Reptiles
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i love those bumblebees bruce... me and sus have to come and visit so she can see them!