noun
definition
A place where bees and their hives are kept.
Examples of apiary in a Sentence
Having made himself proficient in practical bee-work and chosen a suitable location for his apiary, the bee-keeper should carefully select the particular type of hive most suited to his means and requirements.
Similar measures were adopted to check the decline of bee-keeping, and a model apiary was founded in 1890, under government control.
The main consideration in establishing an apiary is to secure a favourable location, which means a place where honey of good marketable quality may be gathered from the bee-forage growing around without any planting on the part of the bee-keeper himself.
I once visited an apiary where there were numerous cardboard boxes scattered around.
Before undertaking the management of a modern apiary, the bee-keeper should possess a certain amount of aptitude for the pursuit, without which it is hardly possible to succeed.
R.P. âWe have had drone layers at the teaching apiary & one of our teachers made sure we all saw itâ .
It is a good idea to place them in an isolation apiary, until their temper and disease status can be assessed.
An empty hive in your apiary containing drawn comb will often attract a swarm - a bait hive.
Apiarium or apiary, a beehouse or hive, is used figuratively by old writers for a place of industry, e.g.
In England also, some bee-keepers include queen-rearing as part of their business, while one large apiary on the south coast is exclusively devoted to the rearing of queen bees on the latest scientific system, and to breeding by selection from such races as are most suited to the exceptional climatic conditions of the country.
As a rule, it may be said that the man content to start with an apiary of moderate size - say fifty stocks - may realize a fair profit from comb-honey only; but so limited a venture would need to be supplemented by some other means before an adequate income could be secured.
The well-read and intelligent bee-keeper, content to work on orthodox lines, will be able to manage an apiary - large or small - by guiding and controlling the countless army he commands in a way that will yield him both pleasure and profit.
We are concerned about the amount of stores the colonies at our out apiary have.
Fig 2. shows one from a batch of 18 sealed cells that was raised in my local Assn apiary, see picture below.
All he needs is good bee weather and an apiary free from disease to make him appreciate bee-craft as one of the most remunerative of rural industries; affording a wholesome open-air life conducive to good health and yielding an abundance of contentment.
The magazine follows the beekeeping season and so you always get monthly information on what you should be doing in your own apiary.