Worker Bee Lifecycle & Colony Population Model (2D)

This 2D companion keeps the same temporal-polyethylism job schedule as the 3D hive cutaway — drag the age slider and a single tracked bee moves from egg (day 0) through larva, a capped pupa, and then a career sequence of cell-cleaner, nurse, builder/food-handler, guard and forager, all pulled earlier under colony stress exactly as in the 3D model. What the 2D version adds is a genuine demographic layer: an egg-laying-rate slider feeds a steady-state, age-structured population model — Little's Law paired with a piecewise-exponential survivorship curve — that computes the actual standing headcount of bees in each role and plots it as a live bar chart next to the survivorship curve itself, so raising colony stress visibly shrinks the forager bar as their mortality rate climbs, not just the age at which foraging starts.