The BeeCraft Podcast
from the international award-winning beekeeping magazine
Episodes
On location, checking out a possible drone congregation area (DCA), co-editors Richard and Stephen pick out some favourites from the July issue of BeeCraft magazine and talk about what's coming up in future issues,
The editing team, Richard, Lucy and Stephen, discuss the June issue plus an exclusive interview with Pete Davies, formerly of the National Bee Unit, who has recently returned from yellow-legged hornet nest hunting in New Zealand.
Links mentioned in the podcast:
The William Parkinson Living Laboratory fundraiser: www.justgiving.com/page/william-parkinson-living-laboratory
The B4 symposium on wild living bees www.b4project.co.uk/sy...
A low-cost breakthrough in automatically identifying the presence of the invasive yellow-legged hornet at a bait station with no risk of bycatch has been invented by Jon Semple -- hear how it came about and what will happen this season
Who is behind BeeCraft illustrations? Meet beekeeper-artist George Tonge.
Co-editors Richard Rickitt and Stephen Fleming guide you through the May issue of BeeCraft.
In this podcast special from Sao Paulo in Brazil, Kate Graydon of Bristol University tells BeeCraft about her latest research into the wonderful world of Brazil's stingless bees. They can bite, they can heal and some spend their lives thieving from their neighbours.
In the March issue of BeeCraft magazine, Kate surprised readers by showing that honey bee queens lay different sizes of eggs depending on the amount of forage in their ...
The backstory to the April issue of BeeCraft magazine, with co-editors Richard Rickitt and Stephen Fleming.
Video links mentioned in the podcast:
"My Garden of a Thousand Bees" on BBC iPlayer (50 mins) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002t686/my-garden-of-a-thousand-bees
Skep beekeeping on Luneburg Heath (16 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2IjNBbLESY
Another look behind the scenes of another issue of BeeCraft featuring Broodbox contributor Peter Smith and Richard's unfortunate encounter with a goat.
Co-editors, Richard and Stephen, and the magazine designer, Amanda, talk about the February 2026 issue - plus a cameo appearance from Dafydd Pett, and getting in the way of a famous person at the Constable & Turner exhibition at Tate Britain (which features a skep or three).
Subscribe to BeeCraft magazine at www.bee-craft.com
The editors discuss the January 2026 issue and let you into a few secrets.
Subscribe to BeeCraft magazine at www.bee-craft.com
A BeeCraft podcast recorded in December 2025 with Professor Lars Chittka, bee scientist and world-famous author of The Mind of a Bee, an exploration of the tiny but highly sophisticated brains of bees. And now Lars has become a film star in The Last Bee.
As co-editors of BeeCraft, Richard Rickitt and Stephen Fleming had visited Lars at his laboratories in Queen Mary University, London to speak with him and learn about the research ...
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