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ELI5: How do little insects that live in groups like ants and bees live when they get separated from their nest?

Imagine you're a bee and get trapped inside a car that drops you off two towns away from your hive. Do you just live trying to find your way back or just become part of another hive or just live like a lone wolf? Do foreign bees care if you are not their relative? Are you gonna survive?
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Generally, it’s a death sentence for that individual.

Sometimes bees will get taken in by other hives, though there isn’t much documentation for this. The bee could probably make it back to his hive from just a mile or two away, as bees can cover quite a bit of area looking for flowers. 

Ants are extremely territorial, though, and unless the lone ant in question runs across a different colony of *exactly* the same species, he’s definitely dead.

Even if the lone ant didn’t run into an enemy colony, he would likely not make it long. Ants are basically a bit of biological programming with legs, outside of the controlled chaos of his anthill the simple rule set that ants use to survive in a group would not get him what he needs to survive alone.