Getting Big by Producing Small

Last year, amongst many other things, I bred a ghost mojave to a 100% het ghost black pastel spider (black bee).  Sounds like a cool pairing, right?  To my knowledge the ghost mojave black bee hasn’t been produced yet and I was gunning to be the first.  With eight eggs in the incubator I was feeling optimistic; all I needed was a little love from the Odds Gods and I would hit on something amazing to share with the world.  I watched with hopeful anticipation as the eggs finally pipped.  And like a popped water balloon I felt the excitement rushing out of my body as I checked the contents of each egg.  Disappointment.  Disappointment.  Disappointment.  To say that I got murdered on the odds was a bit of an understatement.  But I didn’t just miss on the ghost mojave black bee.  The clutch didn’t produce a single ghost black bee, honey bee, ghost mojave,

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