apiarist

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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

One of Horn’s roles as state apiarist is to perform health assessments on hives coming into the state.

From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2014

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

They will, therefore, to use the picturesque expression of the apiarist, "ball "the queenly intruder; in other words, they will entirely surround her with their innumerable interlaced bodies.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred