Table 1. The modulation of shimmering by hovering hornets regarding their distance to the honeybee nest (scenario B).

Categories of distance of the hornets from the nest before shimmering		Number of episodes	Distance of the hornets from the nest before shimmering	Shimmering activity as response to the presence of the hornets
Cdxz	dxz [cm]	n	dxz [cm]	Wpeak	W600
1	0–18	6	12.7±1.8	12.6±1.3	71.1±4.4
2	18–30	19	25.9±0.7	12.1±2.0	67.1±6.9
3	30–40	49	35.8±0.4	10.0±0.8	55.2±2.9
4	40–60	79	49.2±0.7	8.2±0.5	49.4±2.0
5	>60	48	71.5±1.5	6.5±0.5	42.4±2.1
		201

Shimmering activities of 201 episodes in terms of W_peak and W₆₀₀ in dependence of the pre-wave distances of the hornets from the nest (definitions, see Methods). The hornet data (d_xz) were assessed in the interval 400 ms prior to shimmering. Shimmering responses (means±SEM) were categorized by five classes (Cd_xz = 1 to 5) of d_xz (cf. Fig. 3A).