Butter Bee Royal Python - Python regius

The Butter Bee is a designer combination and the result of Butter (Co-Dominant) and Spider (Dominant) genetics. As hatchlings they generally exhibit a lightly coloured velvety butter spider web pattern against a pale white background with white sides and green eyes and pale pink tongue. This is a high contrast combination and they are very striking in appearance.  As they mature the dorsal background colouration begins to take on a very pale yellow appearance.

This designer combination was first produced in 2004 (Reptile Industries) and now some 6 years on they are still rarely seen or made available to the collector.

I was fortunate to produce several Butter Bee's in 2009 and I still have them in my collection.  As is usual the Spider influence has produced hatchlings that are robust feeders, taking their 1st meal after 7 days and never refusing since.

Butter Bees pack some powerful breeding genetics and bred to a normal the odds are 1 in 4 (applied to the egg) of producing a Butter Bee, Spider, Butter and Normal. So breed them into Pastels and add into the mix the potential of a Queen Bee, Butter Pastel, Bumble Bee and if you breed into another Butter then you can produce the Super Butter (Blue eyed Leucistic) as well as Butter Bee's, Butters, Spiders and ..well you get the idea.  You can really up your breeding strategy with a Butter Bee in your collection.  I may have a few available in 2010 and I may even let some of the 09's go too if I can bring myself to part with them.

This is a very very nice designer combination.

Royal Python - Butter Bee