apiarist
Example Sentences
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Her father, a fifth-generation apiarist, started the family’s bee garden, a large collection of hives, in Almere in the 1970s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
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
Mike Hansen, the state apiarist who oversees commercial bee inspections, said unofficial estimates of the number of people in Michigan with beehives on rooftops and in backyards range from about 3,000 to 10,000.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
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
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 Rudyard Kipling
