apiary
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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
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
When we visited his apiary we saw several Asian hornets that had been captured that day.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
An apiary or bee house should front the south, in a situation between the extremes of heat and cold.
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
Grozinger noted that in managed apiaries, honey bee colonies are often placed very close together, and the bees can transmit viruses by drifting into each other's colonies or by foraging on the same flowers.
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
I have had for several years, three apiaries about two miles apart, averaging in spring a little more than fifty in each.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby
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