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🧪 Quarantine Protocols for New Colonies and Second-Hand Equipment

A 3D apiary showing why new colonies and second-hand equipment are isolated at a distance, monitored over an inspection period, and treated before joining the main hive row.

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A new nucleus colony and a pile of second-hand equipment sit on an isolated quarantine stand, separated from the main apiary by a boundary line, while an inspection-progress ring and a drifting-bee count show how distance, time and treatment cut disease-transfer risk.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Contamination risk falls as isolation distance and days under observation increase and as stronger equipment decontamination is applied — but rises sharply if the new colony shows disease symptoms, regardless of the other precautions.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the colony farther from the main hives to reduce drifting-bee crossings, wind the days-in-quarantine slider toward the 21-day brood cycle, pick an equipment treatment, and toggle whether the colony looks healthy or symptomatic to see the risk score respond.

💡 Did You Know?

Because worker brood takes about 21 days to emerge, many diseases only become visible on comb after a full brood cycle — which is why inspectors treat anything shorter than three weeks of observation as inconclusive.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D apiary showing why new colonies and second-hand equipment are isolated at a distance, monitored over an inspection period, and treated before joining the main hive row.

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