Word: apiarist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countryside near Vancouver, Apiarist William Feedham saw a farmer casually kick over a full beehive. To Apiarist Feedham's further astonishment, a group of calves tethered a few feet away paid no attention to the milling swarms of bees. "I realized right away," he says, "that the bees in Squamish Valley were vastly different from any I had ever seen before. Obviously they did not sting...
...stinging bees have been raised for some years in the U.S.-for example, in New Jersey by Apiarist Henry Brown. Because Brown's bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...
Stingers. In Lewiston, Idaho,Apiarist W. H. Bristol fed his young bees a concoction of sulfathiazole and syrup, fondly hoped their sting might now be antiseptic...
Though the gods drank nectar, pollen would have been far better for them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each...