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- noun Plural form of
apiarist .
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Examples
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A booming, buzzing hobbyThere are now an estimated 125,000 amateur apiarists nationwide, up 25% in the past five years, says Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture magazine.
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NEW PALTZ — It's not as if bees — and beekeepers — didn't already have enough problems, but now one of the region's best-known apiarists has a new problem: bears.
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A little more than two weeks ago, after 20 years of keeping dozens of hives on his nearly four acres on Plain Road, Harp suffered the first of what apiarists call a nocturnal "bear hit."
Lance Mannion: 2010
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A little more than two weeks ago, after 20 years of keeping dozens of hives on his nearly four acres on Plain Road, Harp suffered the first of what apiarists call a nocturnal "bear hit."
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NEW PALTZ — It's not as if bees — and beekeepers — didn't already have enough problems, but now one of the region's best-known apiarists has a new problem: bears.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."
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While the theory has created a lot of buzz in the beekeeping world, apiarists say there could be any number of reasons why the bees are deserting their hives and presumably dying off in large numbers, including changing weather patterns and mite or other kinds of infestations.
Archive 2008-04-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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While the theory has created a lot of buzz in the beekeeping world, apiarists say there could be any number of reasons why the bees are deserting their hives and presumably dying off in large numbers, including changing weather patterns and mite or other kinds of infestations.
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE HAPPY ON THIS EARTH DAY News from Mad Plato 2008
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As New York magazine noted, Every Third Bite's chosen topic "could make for a very alarmist narrative," but by focusing on America's amateur apiarists, Meerkat's given us "a better bee movie," an antidote to the scary stats on the state of our for-hire honeybees.
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Well, apparently the G-20 aren't very well trained as apiarists.
Africa: The world's largest refugee camp -- with a little help from the G-20... 2007
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