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What happens if an ant is released outside in a strange location?

Whenever I see an insect in the house, I capture it and let it outside. Yesterday I scooped up an ant and released it in my front yard. This got me wondering, what happens if an ant is released nowhere near its hill? I'm talking miles away here. Will it be assimilated in a new ant colony? Will it be shunned by "local" ants, forcing it to live the rest of its life alone?
gpt
What happens is that the ant tries to get home. The ant will look for scent trails or landmarks to get back home. If it is a worker ant, the ant has only one mission, and it can't do that mission if it is not in or near it's colony. 

Taking the ant from inside your house to the front lawn, the ant will probably be fine. The reason is that nearby queens are often related and an ant can pass through the nearby colony and not trigger any defenses because the scent will be close enough to the one of the related colony. Often, there are super colonies with the queens being closely related and the worker ants will often interact closely without any harm.