The independent voice of British beekeeping. Britain's best-selling beekeeping magazine. Also on Facebook and Instagram @beecraftmag
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May 21
The latest BeeCraft podcast has just gone live - hear Pete Davies (former NBU) talk about his experiences yellow-legged #hornet nest hunting in #NewZealand.
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Apr 30
The BeeCraft May podcast is out. Hear about #BuzzCopper, a smart low-cost way to ID yellow-legged #hornets at a bait station, from its inventor Jon Semple, and from the BeeCraft illustrator George Tonge.
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Apr 13
In a special from #SaoPaulo in #Brazil, Kate Graydon of #BristolUniversity tells us about her latest research into the wonderful world of Brazil's #stinglessbees. They can bite, they can heal and some spend their lives thieving from their neighbours. podbean.com/ew/pb-579bi-1a99…
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Apr 1
The latest BeeCraft #podcast is out. Listen to the back story to articles in the April issue and have a glimpse of what's coming. #AlfredWatkins #Basingstoke #wildbees #honeybees #beekeeping
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Mar 9
Have a laugh with Peter Smith of Broodbox fame on the BeeCraft #podcast for the March issue. (You can have regular podcast updates through your usual podcast provider -- follow The BeeCraft Podcast.) podbean.com/eas/pb-ha5eb-1a5…
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12 Feb 2025
Check out February's Photo of the Month by Peter Langford from Suffolk. The photograph shows varroa (Varroa destructor) and tropilaelaps (Tropilaelaps mercedesae).
You can find out how Peter achieved such a brilliant image on page 33.
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10 Feb 2025
In the February BeeCraft we interviewed Penny Melville-Brown OBE. She is thought to be the first blind person to be elected as chair of a British beekeeping association.
Listen to her interview in our brand new BeeCraft podcast:
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7 Feb 2025
The 2024 IMYB in Dubai, UAE, hosted 20 international teams and the theme was beekeeping in arid lands. Alongside the competition, the participants were taken on a whistle-stop tour of Dubai's landmarks and desert conservation reserve.
Read the full story on page 10.
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5 Feb 2025
Pollen mites: friend or foe in the hive?
In the February BeeCraft, Ken and Dan Basterfield NDB write about the mites that consume pollen mould in beehives. They think of pollen mites as nature’s housekeepers and discuss the ways in which they are useful to beekeepers.
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3 Feb 2025
Is this the world's oldest beehive?
The discovery of a superbly preserved 1,300-year-old tree hive in Poland has astonished scientists.
Read the full article on page 38 of the February BeeCraft.
Photos: courtesy Polish Museum of Beekeeping Culture
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31 Jan 2025
In the February BeeCraft, Francis Russell - Guernsey’s invasive non-native species officer - explains the island's yellow-legged hornet spring trapping campaign.
Find out more on page 8.
#asianhornet #YLH #bees #invasivespecies #honeybees #bees
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29 Jan 2025
The February BeeCraft is out now.
In this month's issue, find out about the secret symmetry of the honey bee nest, teen beekeepers in Dubai, the spread forecasts for the yellow-legged hornet, pollen mites, beekeepers' sheds and much more.
Happy reading!
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28 Jan 2025
Nature lover, bee advocate, wildlife gardener and author, Brigit Strawbridge dedicates her time to raising awareness of the importance of native wild bees and other pollinating insects.
Discover Brigit's plants and pollinators choices in the January BeeCraft.
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24 Jan 2025
Rev John Owen delivered a sermon at the church of the father of English beekeeping in Hampshire. "What can we learn from Charles Butler?", he asked.
Through studying Butler's life and works, Rev John Owen deduced four remarkable pointers. Discover more in the January BeeCraft.
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22 Jan 2025
In the latest instalment of our Cyclopedia series, M is for migratory beekeeping.
Co-editor Richard Rickitt writes about the shift from honey hunting to migratory beekeeping across the world.
Find out more on page 33 of the January BeeCraft.
Photo: @richardrickitt
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20 Jan 2025
In the first of our articles on survivor bees in Southern California, Professor Boris Baer sheds light on the events which led up to this modern-day bee phenomenon.
Find out more about survivor bees on page 28 of the January BeeCraft.
Photos: courtesy CIBER
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17 Jan 2025
In the January BeeCraft, co-editor Stephen Fleming reports on how Martin and Deirdre Bencsik have built and played bee cellos over the past ten years.
Read the full story on page 24.
Photos: B Williams
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15 Jan 2025
Keith S Delaplane introduces his brand new series on flowers, bees and pollination in the January BeeCraft.
"As beekeepers, we talk about pollination all the time, but what does that word actually mean? How is a flower pollinated and precisely what role do our bees play?"
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13 Jan 2025
In the January BeeCraft, we welcomed Lesley Jacques NDB as she settles into the hot seat as author of the ever-popular monthly beginners’ series (read just as keenly by old hands as new ones, we happen to know).
Read her practical advice on page 18.
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10 Jan 2025
In the January BeeCraft, Rémi Brouard, Christian Guespin and Marie Laure Legroux ask: does spring trapping yellow-legged Asian hornets work?
Read the full results of their study on page 6.
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