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a person who calmly steals from thousands of armed insects and calls it a hobby
means A person who keeps and cares for colonies of bees, typically to harvest honey, beeswax, or to pollinate crops.
from A transparent compound of "bee" and "keeper." "Bee" descends from Old English "bēo," a word with Germanic relatives across the old languages. "Keeper" comes from "keep" (Old English "cēpan," to seize, hold, observe) plus the agent suffix "-er" — literally one who keeps. The older, lovelier word for the same trade is "apiarist," from Latin "apis," bee — but "beekeeper" wins by saying plainly what it means.
- Smoke trick
- Smoke masks alarm pheromones, making bees mellow
- Sting tolerance
- Veterans barely react to stings over time
- Queen spotting
- They mark queens with a dot of paint
- Bee math
- One hive can hold 60,000 bees
- Ancient gig
- Egyptians kept bees over 4,500 years ago
brother adam — british monk who bred the buckfast bee strain at buckfast abbey starting in 1919
sue bee honey — american honey brand founded by iowa beekeepers in 1921, now the largest us honey producer
top-bar hive beekeeping — kenyan beekeeping method popularized by warre and others, now widely used in africa and alternative apiaries