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🌼 Natural Pollen: Collection, Storage and Banking

How bees gather pollen, how beekeepers can collect and store it, and building a pollen bank for lean periods.

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Foraging bees load pollen onto their hind legs at a meadow of flowers, fly it back through a pollen trap at the hive entrance, and a share of each load is knocked into a tray, packed into jars, and aged on a pollen-bank shelf.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A pollen trap intercepts only part of what returning foragers carry; the rest still feeds the colony. Banked pollen is a perishable stock whose freshness decays at a rate set by how it's stored, and a dearth period draws the bank back down.

🎮 How to Use

Set the trap efficiency and forager count to change how fast pollen accumulates, choose a storage method to see how quickly jars dull with age, speed up simulated time, and toggle a dearth period to watch the bank feed the colony.

💡 Did You Know?

Freezing pollen at -18°C preserves its protein and vitamin content far longer than storing it at room temperature, which is why a serious pollen bank lives in a chest freezer, not a kitchen cupboard.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D scene where foraging bees load pollen at a meadow, carry it through a pollen trap at the hive entrance, and a captured share is packed into jars on a pollen-bank shelf that age and can be drawn down during a simulated dearth.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install