beekeeper
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A Riverside County beekeeper lost millions of bees in last week’s Verona fire and warns that the effects of the devastation will be widespread.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Funkhouser, a veteran commercial beekeeper, should have around 1,200 hives under his care.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
Paris transport officials then closed the metro entrance while a local Parisian beekeeper was called in to collect the insects.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Fellow beekeeper Heleen Nieman told Dutch radio that she had three bee colonies and wanted to give him one of them.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
“You can’t be a true beekeeper without getting stung.”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Two hives were initially installed and staff were recruited to train as beekeepers.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
"We had more than 40,000 beehives and more than 450 beekeepers" before the war, he told AFP from the rooftop in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
By 1947 commercial beekeepers were moving their hives miles away; smog was killing the bees, or making them crazy so they couldn’t find their way back home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
The harms from faked honey are mostly to the livelihoods of beekeepers.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
“A long time ago beekeepers always covered their hives when someone in their family died,” said August.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
