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Killer Bee

An investment banker who helps publicly-traded companies take periodic or continual measures to discourage unwanted or hostile takeovers. One example of an antitakeover measure in which a killer bee might assist is the macaroni defense, in which the company issues a large number of bonds with the proviso that they must be redeemed at a high price if the company is taken over.

killer bee

An individual or organization that assists a firm in repelling a takeover attempt, especially by devising defensive strategies.

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A 25pc increase in berry mass was recorded when African honeybees were the predominant insects visiting the flowers.

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There are problems, however, with imported pollinators, which often diminish or even wipe out native pollinators: (i) European and (especially) African honeybees (Apis mellifera) in the New World (Kevan and Baker, 1998), Australia (Paton, 1993), and New Zealand; (ii) European bumblebees (especially Bombus terrestris) in Israel (Dafni and Shmida, 1996; Dafni, 1998), Japan (Asada and Ono, 1996), and New Zealand; and (iii) worldwide monocultures of European Megachile rotundata.

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African honeybees present a high propensity for swarming, which can facilitate and accelerate the propagation of their mitochondrial DNA.

The origin of west European subspecies of honeybees (Apis mellifera): new insights from microsatellite and mitochondrial data