During vacation, my husband and I made our way back to the hotel on a cold and rainy night, and settled in for some fantastic YouTube nature videos. There is one fellow who is a hilarious narrator, Ze Frank. I’m not sure if he’s kid friendly, but he’s funny and you will learn a lot if you watch him. Anyway, the topic of bees came up. Not just Ze’s bees, but I mentioned to my spouse (Ray) that my manager’s husband is becoming a bee keeper, and my brother is talking about raising bees.
Then I heard the word “apiary.” I sent it to work so I would remember it for Editor’s Corner. The definition from AI:
apiary
Simply put, an apiary is a place where beehives are kept. The word comes from the Latin words for bee, apis, and place of, arium. Apiarium/apiary means “place of bees.” If you keep bees and have more than one hive at the same site — rooftop, garden, field, orchard — you have an apiary.
I found this photo online and stopped there. What an interesting hobby!
Then I thought about how similar the word apiary is to aviary (where birds are kept). Looking up similar terms, I found this list of places different animals are kept. (It’s a long and inconsistent list, but it’s here if you’d like to see it: https://www.absp.org.uk/words/placesanimals.shtml) Here are a few of the ones that I found interesting.
| aerie | a bird of prey’s nest. |
| apiary | a home for bees. |
| aviary | a large enclosure for live birds. |
| beavery | a place where beavers are kept. |
| byre | a cow barn. |
| cocoonery | a building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons. |
| dogtown | a prairie dog community. |
| dolphinarium | a place where dolphins are kept. |
| drey | a squirrel’s nest. |
| formicarium | an anthill, an ant colony. [KC – This makes me itch.] |
| goosery | a place for keeping geese. [KC – Hee hee!] |
| hennery | an inclosed place for keeping hens. |
| holt | the lair or den of an animal, esp. an otter. |
| mousery | a place where mice habitually gather. [KC – The other places seem like places trapped animals are kept. This sounds more like a place mice go to have tea and crumpets.] |
| ophidiarium | a snake-house. |
| rathole | a hole for rats. [KC – A rathole? The mice get a mousery and the rats get a hole?] |
| sett | a badger’s home. |
| swannery | a place for swans. |
| swinery | a place where pigs are kept. |
| termitary | a nest or mound of termites. [KC – No, no.] |
| vespiary | a nest or colony of wasps. [KC – Double no.] |
| wormery | a place where worms are bred. |
Enjoy your day!
Kara Church | Technical Editor, Advisory
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