In warm and arid regions, working day-foraging ants facial area demise by desiccation, so the capacity to uncover the shortest route again to the nest cuts down that possibility. Renowned myrmecologist E. O. Wilson wrote a quick story, "Trailhead" in 2010 for The New Yorker journal, which describes the life and dying of an ant-queen and the rise and drop of her colony, from an ants' level of look at.