The presence of Δ2-3 somatic transposase to Muller5-B X chromosome carrying five target P-elements causes pupal lethality, with or without heat shock P{otu/SP} cannot repress some of the lethality. P{otu/SP} fails to repress gonadal dysgenesis, either through a maternal effect or through a combination of zygotic and maternal effects, with or without heat shock. P{otu/SP} cannot repress snw mutability in the male germline or the somatic instability of snw (males have patches of weak sn, extreme sn and wild-type bristles) with or without heat shock.