apiarist

plural apiarists

1. Synonym of beekeeper.

   Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth, a nineteenth- century apiarist, teacher and clergyman who is considered to be the father of American beekeeping, first described this type of hive in 1853.

   2014, Doug Purdie, Backyard Bees: A guide for the beginner beekeeper, page 17

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   Some late and very curious experiments, however, of M. Huber, one of the most celebrated apiarists in Europe, have shewn that the pollen has no share whatever in the formation of wax; but that this substance is produced indiscriminately from honey, sugar, or any other saccharine matter, which serves as food for the bees.

   1815, Edward T. W. Polehampton, The Gallery of Nature and Art, page 310

   "I have seen bees so drunk that they could not fly, and in a condition of mental and physical paralysis, due to their copious imbibing, which would have killed one of your Bowery topers with envy. It is a very common thing on a California bee farm to find the transgressing honeymakers staggering about on the tops of flowers or writhing about in the dust of roads, and performing all the absurd antics of a rum-dazed man." […] "Can a bee get drunk on the nectar of flowers?" asked the reporter. "Possibly," returned the apiarist. "The saccharine secretions of some flowers by no means compose a teetotal drink. […]"

   1899 September 28, “Animal life: stories, studies and sketches”, in Current Literature, volume 26, number 3, page 269

   In addition to this there are, within the borders of the United States, thousands of good locations for the apiarist — forest, prairie, swamp, and mountain regions — where agriculture has not yet gained a foothold, either because of remoteness from markets or the uninviting character of soil or climate.

   1905, “Bee keeping”, in Farmers' Bulletin, number 59, page 9

   Synonyms: beekeeper