apiarist

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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

On that day in Mr. Moles’s truck, I passed fallow hayfields, cutting into the plantation from its southern corner to rattle through fields where an apiarist had established a little metropolis of white-painted hives.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2012

Though I am, as I have said, an apiarist in good standing, I never realised that there were so many bees in the world.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard