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apiary

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

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

Then, Hanka, run across to the new house and look in the apiary.

From St. Peter's Umbrella by Kálmán Mikszáth

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

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

Many of them are actually mobile apiaries, moving around the continent throughout the growing season, depending on what is blooming when and where.

From Washington Post Jun. 20, 2019

This marvellous prerogative the Osmia shares with a host of apiaries, in which the unequal development of the males and females requires an unequal provision of space and of nourishment for the future larvae.

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall



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