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apiary

[ey-pee-er-ee] / ˈeɪ piˌɛr i /
NOUN
bee home
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Brandon Teller, one of the county’s most prominent beekeepers, saw a Watch Duty fire notification on May 19 and headed straight to his apiary.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Run by chemistry teacher Justin Wade, the club regularly has eight pupils who look after it's apiary and learn about the life of bees.

From BBC May 14, 2026

Visit a local apiary or beekeeper to see how bees live and work.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2024

The farm also has an apiary operation that produces incredible honey, two rescue steers, and a smattering of laying hens.

From Salon May 2, 2024

I never could discover any intimacy between colonies of the same apiary, except when they stood on the 25 same bench; and then, all the social intercourse seems to subsist between the nearest neighbors only.

From A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees by John M. (John Moseley) Weeks

Grozinger noted that in managed apiaries, honey bee colonies are often placed very close together, and the bees can transmit viruses by drifting into each other's colonies or by foraging on the same flowers.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2023

He spends most of his days tending eight apiaries around Los Angeles, but he doesn’t sell honey.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2021

To provide the honey for his range of meads Mr Cooper is also a professional beekeeper, who looks after more than 500 hives at 50 different locations or apiaries across Wales.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2021

When the researchers placed buffets of animal dung near several apiaries, bees harvested clumps of it, dabbing their nests in carefully mounded lumps, each roughly the size of a sesame or poppy seed.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2020

The Division of Bee Culture at the University Farm, which has charge of teaching, demonstration, extension work, research, queen rearing, correspondence, statistics and model apiaries, $6,500.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by A. W. Latham



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