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[UtahAnts]

I thought it would be useful to have a record of people's success rates with different species they have kept over the years. I know that the difficulty of each species can vary from keeper to keeper, and that many factors affect each queens success rate, but if we get enough data someone could theoretically compile standard difficulty ratings for individual species. If you want to contribute feel free to share what your success/death rates are with species you often keep. Only consider queens and colonies that died naturally or randomly, and not killed experimentally or purposefully. 

 

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[Antkeeper01]

my succes rates for T.immigrans were 2/3

[cocdeshijie]

Camponotus sps 90%
Myrmecocystus mexicanus 80% 

Myrmecocystus navajo 100%

Pogonomyrmex sps 80%

[NickAnter]

So far:

Solenopsis truncorum: less than 5%

Solenopsis molesta: Dealates: 70% Alates: 10%

[ANTdrew]

Some rough estimates for me:
Tetramorium: 80%
Crematogaster: 98%
Camponotus: 70%
Monomorium: 40%
Nylanderia: 40%
Pheidole: 60%

[Astrotate]

I recently collected 50 queen Lassuis Americanus on aug 15. They all have eggs and some workers are just hatching. Despite my best efforts, of the 50 queens I collected I only have 39 left so that’s a 22% loss and 78% success.   All died of seemingly natural causes. 

Edited by Astrotate, October 17 2021 - 8:54 AM.