apiarist

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According to the apiarist community, most bee thieves are actually just washed-up beekeepers making a last-ditch effort to save their businesses.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2021

Six years ago, Tucson native and sommelier Noel Patterson began amateur beekeeping after receiving a hive as a gift from a skilled local apiarist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2021

Murray Borer, an apiarist and president of his regional beekeeper's association, told the BBC his industry has been decimated by the pesticide.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2016

“We’re not worried about the bees going extinct, we’re worried about the beekeepers going extinct,” Dennis vanEngelsdorp, an apiarist from the University of Maryland, told the Wall Street Journal.

From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2016

The apiarist studies the nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers that "the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference" in the bees.

From A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 by Stryker, Elisabeth G.