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beekeeper

[bee-kee-per] / ˈbiˌki pər /
NOUN
caretaker for bees
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Fellow beekeeper Les Latham said the team used food traps to attract the insects before monitoring the direction and timing of their flights.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Someday she hopes to set up a free seed library, and she’s excited to see bluebird hatchlings in the bluebird house that Venice beekeeper Ian Kimbrey installed in her tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

There are even bees and a beekeeper, who harvests honey for employees to take home.

From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2025

Along the walls were topsy-turvy shelves of cookbooks and books about the history of baking and how to be a beekeeper.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

"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

Boris Baer, a UCR entomology professor and co-author of the study, emphasized the importance of collaboration with beekeepers.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 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

Although colony losses occurred steadily through 2020, there were several years in which beekeepers reported sustainable colonies and it looked as though bees might have escaped danger.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly


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