The Magazine
BeeCraft is Britain’s best-selling beekeeping magazine and an international award winner.
Produced monthly, it is a full-colour 48-page magazine about the world of honey bees and beekeeping. It is also available online.
Written for beekeepers of all levels of experience, the magazine contains lots of practical advice plus the latest honey bee news and research from Britain and around the world.
With an emphasis on quality photography, clear communication and the diversity of beekeepers and beekeeping, it is designed to educate and entertain. Regular features include ask the experts, honey tasting, beekeeper profiles, gardening for pollinators, producing and selling hive products, beekeeping history, artwork inspired by honey bees … and lots more.
 
Everyone involved in the production of the magazine is a beekeeper, so they are closely in tune with beekeeper communities. As the independent voice of British beekeeping, it continues to innovate and is highly respected internationally.
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!
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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...