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apiary

[ay-pee-er-ee] / ˈeɪ piˌɛr i /
NOUN
bee home
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After her mother’s death, she began working with her father, Salvador, and her uncles at the family’s apiary, where they managed more than 30 hives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Run by chemistry teacher Justin Wade, the club regularly has eight pupils who look after it's apiary and learn about the life of bees.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Visit a local apiary or beekeeper to see how bees live and work.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

The farm also has an apiary operation that produces incredible honey, two rescue steers, and a smattering of laying hens.

From Salon ● May 2, 2024

The new hive containing the bees must be placed on the stand of the apiary, to receive the absent bees as they return from the fields.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

Finally, they experimentally infected bees from two colonies in central Pennsylvania with strains of the virus found in the Arnot Forest and the managed apiaries.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023

At the time of the first theft, he said he went to check on two of his apiaries and found the brood boxes, which contained the queens, were missing.

From BBC ● May 16, 2023

The plan was equally straightforward: Community-owned farms would feed everyone and fund additional industries, including apiaries, hatcheries, canneries, smithies, brickyards and even a film studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023

The nonprofit works to help apiaries troubleshoot such problems, while also collecting data that can lead to solutions.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2019

They were also at work on fifty concrete apiaries for the protection of the bees.

From Hidden Treasure by John Thomas Simpson



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