How to Use beekeeper in a Sentence

beekeeper

noun
  • Killer bees are so dangerous to handle that very few beekeepers are willing to deal with them in hives.
    Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The beekeepers found no hives nor bee activity and gave the property the all clear.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
  • After capturing a swarm, most bee cops either give the insects to beekeepers or adopt them.
    Ben Kesling, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
  • That fed suspicions that the pesticides might play a role in honey bee declines that beekeepers were reporting.
    Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2017
  • These beekeepers will remove the bees, most likely, by cutting out a piece of the wall, getting access to the queen, ushering her into a box, and bringing the rest of the bees in the trap.
    Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 19 July 2017
  • Provide tax breaks for construction material for state colleges; video games and amusement devices; beekeepers; and fish farmers.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Emily Mueller of New Franklin, Ohio is a professional beekeeper.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Participants can learn how to create a pollinator garden, watch Monarchs being tagged, get free milkweed seeds, play games, make crafts, meet a beekeeper and more.
    Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Bring honeybee hives and educational programming to parks and urban places, to be nurtured by neighborhood beekeepers.
    Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The beekeeper used foam to subdue the bees and the hive was removed.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The beekeeper stood beneath a bright blue sky and the cloud of an eight-year war.
    Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Karen Lorence agrees there is a sort of a beekeepers club.
    David Sharos, Aurora Beacon-News, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Some beekeepers will come and collect swarms to give the colony a home.
    Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Patrick Genay, a beekeeper with 300 hives in the area, is among those seeking to quash the Amazon project for good.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The head and neck of a beekeeper are covered with a mass of bees that resemble the mane of a lion.
    Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Then dim the lights, put on your beekeeper’s outfit, and take a new profile pic.
    Wendi Aarons, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Commercial beekeeper Jim Oberton has one of the rare Biden signs out in the area.
    Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020
  • In an adorable move, the Middleton clan stepped in and helped get James started as a beekeeper.
    Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2020
  • At the edge of the village, a beekeeper invited us to look at his apiary.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The process of moving the bees to a safe area starts with the queen, according to aspiring beekeeper Noah Lange.
    Kody Fisher, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Bryan Specht, a 25-year-old beekeeper who lives in Colerain, also hopped on board to help.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 26 June 2024
  • Then everyone donned beekeeper suits to open up the hive.
    Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • New for this year are displays of a floral peacock, duck, and a beekeeper.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2022
  • He and a few others from Burford — including one who was a beekeeper — called 911 and tried to keep the bees away from Amos’s face.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • That all changed this spring when our beekeeper retired.
    Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 7 July 2023
  • The beekeeper said the truckload of bees was worth between $1 million and $2 million.
    Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • But the Texas beekeepers all pointed to one clear reason for the bee boom — and that reason answered the phone on our second try.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The drought also has affected fruit and grain producers in the south and beekeepers in the center of the country.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Las Cruces firefighters called Johnson, who was off-duty but is a beekeeper in his spare time, to help clear the bees off the scene.
    Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • But the master beekeeper, who has been keeping hives for more than 40 years, has found herself in a fight against a tricky and evolving foe — honey fraudsters.
    Daniel Matthews, Fortune Europe, 5 Aug. 2024

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