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apiary

[ey-pee-er-ee] / ˈeɪ piˌɛr i /
NOUN
bee home
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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

A team from the University of Edinburgh made the discovery by studying a colony of honeybees at an apiary at the University and using computational models to mimic their brain processes.

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 2024

Once the weather warms up, Davis plans to take them to his apiary in Thermal, where he will release them.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2024

The bees in the well stocked apiary had already gathered a fine supply of honey from the wild flowers of the surrounding prairies.

From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

In apiaries, entire colonies can be wiped out by mite infestation and the associated viral infections within two to three years without proper human intervention.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2023

He spends most of his days tending eight apiaries around Los Angeles, but he doesn’t sell honey.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2021

To provide the honey for his range of meads Mr Cooper is also a professional beekeeper, who looks after more than 500 hives at 50 different locations or apiaries across Wales.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2021

When the researchers placed buffets of animal dung near several apiaries, bees harvested clumps of it, dabbing their nests in carefully mounded lumps, each roughly the size of a sesame or poppy seed.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2020

That we find it so universally planted in our church-yards, was doubtless some symbol of immortality, the tree being so lasting, and always green: Our bee-masters banish it from about their apiaries.

From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet



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