Britain’s best beekeeping magazine
For all beekeepers
Established in 1919, BeeCraft is the UK’s best-selling and international award-winning monthly beekeeping magazine.
BeeCraft is written for beekeepers at all levels of experience. The magazine contains up-to-date articles on beekeeping practice, equipment, news and features from across the UK and around the world, clear presentations of the latest bee science and research, and disease management. In addition, BeeCraft features include gardening for pollinators, honey recipes, beekeeping history, and beautiful honey bee art and photography.
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What’s inside?
We cover a vast selection of beekeeping subjects.
Expect to find:
- Latest news
- In-depth research articles and research summaries
- Beginners’ guide to beekeeping
- Monthly tips and tasks
- Updates on pests and diseases
- Q&A with experts
- Practical step-by-step guides
- Gardening for pollinators
- Apiculture buzz quiz
- Interviews with beekeepers
And much more!
Stories we like
Read some of our favourite stories from past issues
Beginners in the apiary
– April
It’s never too early to think about swarming. By April, there should be lots of new bees coming through. The strongest colonies will be heaving with bees and the swarming instinct will begin to kick...
Insulation, insulation, insulation
In a career that has taken him from mechanical engineering to space craft software, Derek Mitchell returned to earth when his wife took up beekeeping. Looking at the hives that beekeepers used, he...
Eight nifty mechanical
signals produced by worker honey bees
A review of the forms and functions of the eight mechanical (non-chemical) signals that worker honey bees produce and that human beings have deciphered.Imagine that you are a worker bee...As you...
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