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🌡️ Apiary Heat Stress Index Monitoring Lab

A 3D hive cutaway where you dial in air temperature and humidity, watch the Temperature-Humidity Index update live, and see fanning bees, bearding and brood-nest temperature respond to the heat load.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A 3D hive cutaway where you dial in air temperature and humidity, watch the Temperature-Humidity Index update live, and see fanning bees, bearding and brood-nest temperature respond to the heat load.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Rising humidity blunts evaporative cooling even when bees fan harder, pushing the Temperature-Humidity Index — and the brood nest's actual temperature — up faster than the raw thermometer reading suggests.

🎮 How to Use

Set temperature, humidity, fanning effort, colony size and sun exposure. Watch the THI gauge, brood-nest glow, bearding bees and airflow streaks respond, then check the live risk badge.

💡 Did You Know?

Beekeepers borrow THI thresholds from dairy and poultry heat-stress science — once THI passes roughly 30, colonies show measurable stress behaviours long before the air feels unbearable to a human.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D hive cutaway where you dial in air temperature and humidity, watch the Temperature-Humidity Index update live, and see fanning bees, bearding and brood-nest temperature respond to the heat load.

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