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apiary

[ey-pee-er-ee] / ˈeɪ piˌɛr i /
NOUN
bee home
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After her mother’s death, she began working with her father, Salvador, and her uncles at the family’s apiary, where they managed more than 30 hives.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

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

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2024

Gray said she hopes the findings will be useful to beekeepers while planning their apiary management strategies, as well as be a springboard for future studies.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 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

Ap′iarist, one who keeps an apiary: one who studies the habits of bees.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

In apiaries, entire colonies can be wiped out by mite infestation and the associated viral infections within two to three years without proper human intervention.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2023

At the time of the first theft, he said he went to check on two of his apiaries and found the brood boxes, which contained the queens, were missing.

From BBC May 16, 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

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

I have had for several years, three apiaries about two miles apart, averaging in spring a little more than fifty in each.

From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by Quinby, M. (Moses)



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