Its been a while and things have been rocking here since our last post. We have two more clutches hatched and one more laid. The first clutch is from a Spider female to our male Pastel Orange Ghost. This clutch has finally delivered a Bumble Bee after 18 possible eggs over the last two seasons.

The outcome of this clutch was 1.3 Pastels, 1.1 normals and .1 Bumble Bee all het for Orange Ghost. As I mentioned earlier, over the last two seasons we have had 18 eggs that were possible bumble bees. From those 18, 17 hatched yeilding, 9 normals, 5 pastels, 2 spiders and 1 bumble bee. For those of you who are not familiar with the genetics and possibilities each one of those eggs had a 1 in 4(25%) chance of being a bumble bee or a normal. Ouch, odds were not so kind on this project but we are very happy with our little girl and she will be staying right here in the Jungle.

Here are the females from this clutch all cleaned up.

And our little bee getting her first bath.

Our next clutch to hatch is from our VPI line Black Satin Pastel male to a dark Black Back female and boy did they deliver some really dark Black Pastels. This clutch yeilded 2.1 Black Pastels and 1.1 normals and 1 egg that went bad during incubation. This pairing is a classic case of selective breeding in order to produce a deep, intense black color and we are real proud of the results. You can  see the normals even have real black backs too.

Here is a pic of the boys right out of the egg.

 And the girls just out, I think this female will probably stay here as she looks like a great snake to make Super Black Pastels but then again, LOL,  I say that about all the pretty snakes we hatch. Truth is at the end of the day, you cant keep them all.

Seeing the Black Pastels next to the normals really helps you get a good idea of their rich coloration.

          Our last bit of info is of the latest clutch laid which was sired by our Pastel Orange Ghost to a Reduced Pattern Pastel female we produced back in 07. Also we should have three more clutches hatching and being laid this coming month so stay tuned for more action and thanks for stopping by.

Our first clutch of the season is out.

This clutch is from a Butter male to a light normal female and we got .2 Butters and 1.3 normals.

One butter looks lighter and has more blushing than the other, a trait this female has produced for three seasons now.

 We are expecting two more clutches to hatch this week so we should have updates soon.