TRAINING FOR DEFENSE? FROM STOCHASTIC TRAITS TO SYNCHRONY IN GIANT HONEY BEES (<EM>APIS DORSATA</EM>)

In Giant Honey Bees, abdomen flipping happens in a variety of contexts.It can be either synchronous or cascaded, such as in the collective defense traits of shimmering and rearing-up, or it can happen as single-agent behavior.Abdomen flipping is also involved in flickering behavior, which occurs regularly under quiescent colony state displaying sin