Individual/Foraged Beehives vs Apiaries
While many more games contain wild beehives and forage-able honey (listed in the "beehive" objects category), apiaries involve a specialized area specifically for beehives or boxes.
Graveyard Keeper's (2018) map marks a specific location as an apiary. The area's blueprint workbench solely contains crafting designs for bee hives and does not allow any other usage of the space (e.g. farming).
Other titles such as Stardew Valley (2016) or Doraemon Story of Seasons (2019) allow players to place equipment/furniture anywhere on the property, allowing the player to arrange a collection of closely-knit bee hives. The game itself doesn't formally recognize the configuration as an apiary, but the output would serve the same purpose.
Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town (2019) automatically places a wild bee hive on the tree existing on the player's farm. Technically, it could still count as an apiary as adding more trees are optional (must be purchased at the carpenter's shop) and they all "produce" both the fruit and the honey as harvest-able crops.
Wytchwood's (2021) Fields location contains a plot-relevant apiary located on the far left-side of the map. The Queen Bee resides there along with her trusty, dopey Beekeeper.
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