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🧼 Apiary Sanitation and Biosecurity

A 3D apiary where you control hive spacing, equipment sharing, sanitation intensity and quarantine to watch a pathogen spread — or stop spreading — between hives.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D apiary of nine hives where an outbreak spreads across shared equipment, foraging drift and short distances between colonies — and where spacing, sanitation and quarantine determine whether it burns out or sweeps the yard.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each simulated day, infected hives can expose healthy neighbours; the probability rises as hive spacing tightens and falls as sanitation intensity rises. Exposed hives incubate before turning visibly infected, and quarantine severs a hive's onward transmission the moment it turns red.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust hive spacing, sanitation level and the number of seed infections, then toggle shared equipment and quarantine to see how fast — or whether — contamination motes travel between hive stands. Watch the colony status counters and reset to try a different protocol.

💡 Did You Know?

American foulbrood spores can stay viable in comb and woodware for over 40 years, which is why confirmed AFB equipment in the UK is destroyed by scorching or burning rather than merely disinfected.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D apiary where you control hive spacing, equipment sharing, sanitation intensity and quarantine to watch a pathogen spread — or stop spreading — between hives.

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