beekeeper
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beekeepers
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noun
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Origin of beekeeper
Explanation
A beekeeper is someone who manages bee hives and extracts honey. If you see a person wearing a white jumpsuit and a hat with a veil — and they're covered in buzzing insects — it's probably a beekeeper. If you want to get really fancy, you can call a beekeeper an apiarist. Beekeepers manage apiaries, or networks of honey bee hives. They care for the hives, making sure they are an ideal environment for the bees to live and make honey. It's also the beekeeper's job to carefully extract honeycomb without harming the bees. Many people keep bees as a hobby, yielding just a little bit of honey each year.
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St Johns Shopping Centre has thousands of bees in hidden hives on the roof and some of the staff have even had beekeeper training.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Teddy, a hobbyist beekeeper, opens the film alarmed that now the bees have disappeared, too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
"There's not enough help," said Bartolo Quirino, a 42-year-old beekeeper.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
Fellow beekeeper Heleen Nieman told Dutch radio that she had three bee colonies and wanted to give him one of them.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
A writer, an English teacher, and a beekeeper.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
"Because of the increase in the population, people are now very disturbed. Damage is being done to farmers, livestock breeders and beekeepers," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Brandon Teller, one of the county’s most prominent beekeepers, saw a Watch Duty fire notification on May 19 and headed straight to his apiary.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Boris Baer, a UCR entomology professor and co-author of the study, emphasized the importance of collaboration with beekeepers.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
The harms from faked honey are mostly to the livelihoods of beekeepers.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Threats to the bee population became a global concern starting in 2006, when beekeepers first reported significant colony losses.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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