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

“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

His last play, Constellations, involved quantum mechanics and beekeeping, so he met cosmologists and an apiarist to get his facts straight.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2013

They will, therefore, to use the picturesque expression of the apiarist, "ball "the queenly intruder; in other words, they will entirely surround her with their innumerable interlaced bodies.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred