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

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

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

Cook, the eminent apiarist, calls attention to a new pest which has made its appearance in many apiaries.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various