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I heard the other day that, unlike the gene that controls the color of a pastel, the spots on a pastel are a "weak" gene and they will not effect the look of any off-spring from breeding.
So if you have a heavily spotted/alien faced pastel and breed to a spider (for-instance) the spider and bumble bee offspring will not be heavily spotted from the pastel. Is this true, and is this only true when breeding pastels to spiders or all BP's? What if you are breeding a pastel X pastel?

I'm new here and just starting out keeping balls. Glad to meet you all.

generally speaking, patterns in pastels are not "genetic"....meaning that a really nice patterned animal will not reproduce that pattern....again GENERALLY speaking.....but that doesn't mean that it doesnt help....its the same as with pieds, for example. high white pieds dont necessarily throw high white babies, and vice versa.......

hope that helps!!

Hi

If that were really the case you would not find bumbles with spots.

In reality the spots do often pass along.

CLEAN reduced pattern pastels still make the best bumbles.

Lee