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🐝 Responding to a Suspected Bee Poisoning Incident

An interactive 3D model of a suspected pesticide bee-kill: watch spray drift reach a hive, dead foragers accumulate at the entrance, and see how fast decomposition erodes the evidence you need to report.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A hive sits downwind of a treated crop; spray drift, a growing pile of downed foragers, and a marked evidence-collection zone show why the first hours after a suspected bee kill are the ones that decide whether a report can be proven.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Stronger drift knocks down more foragers crossing the hazard boundary, while the evidence-confidence score falls the longer the "hours since exposure" clock runs, as scavenging and residue breakdown erode what a lab can still detect.

🎮 How to Use

Set drift strength and elapsed hours, then step through the response stages — secure and photograph the site, collect samples inside the marked radius, and report — to see the checklist mapped onto the scene.

💡 Did You Know?

UK guidance asks for at least 30 dead or dying bees plus flowering-plant and soil samples, ideally within about 24 hours, before scavengers and weather make the evidence trail unreliable.

⚙ Under the hood

beespesticideshivepoisoningdecompositionwildlifeThree.js

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