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🍯 Safe Feeding: Timing & Robbing Prevention

When to feed bees, how often, and how to avoid triggering robbing - a practical safety guide for UK beekeepers.

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A 3D beekeeping yard where feeding timing, nectar dearth, colony strength and feeder design combine into a live robbing-risk score, played out by guard bees defending the entrance against robber bees.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Robbing risk rises when scent-carrying activity peaks at midday, natural forage is scarce, the colony is weak, and syrup is exposed in an open dish — exactly the factors real beekeepers are taught to manage.

🎮 How to Use

Move the time-of-feeding, nectar-dearth and colony-strength sliders, and switch between an enclosed feeder and an open dish. Watch the risk meter, the scent plume, and whether robber bees get repelled or get through.

💡 Did You Know?

A robbing frenzy can strip a weak colony of its stores in under an hour; feeding in the evening after flight activity stops is one of the simplest, most effective preventive habits.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D beekeeping yard where feeding time, nectar dearth, colony strength and feeder design combine into a live robbing-risk score, played out as guard bees intercepting or missing robber bees at the hive entrance.

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