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🌼 Bee Pollen: Collection, Processing & Nutrition

A 3D pollen-trap simulation: foragers squeeze through a trap grid at the hive entrance, shedding pollen pellets that fall into a collection tray you can watch dry over time.

Biology & Life3DModerate60 FPS

Watch foragers squeeze through a hive-entrance pollen trap, shedding a share of their leg-baskets' pollen into a collection tray below — then scrub through drying to see fresh, moist pellets shrink toward shelf-stable storage.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A trap's mesh aperture sets how much pollen is knocked off each returning forager; smaller holes raise efficiency but every design still lets most bees through untouched so brood-rearing pollen keeps flowing.

🎮 How to Use

Tune trap aperture, toggle the trap on or off, adjust forager traffic and season, then drag the drying slider to see moisture fall from a fresh ~22% toward a storable ~7%.

💡 Did You Know?

Fresh pollen pellets start fermenting within hours of collection, which is why beekeepers freeze or dry a harvest almost immediately rather than leaving it in the trap tray overnight.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D pollen-trap simulation where foragers squeeze through an entrance mesh, shedding a portion of their leg-basket pollen into a collection tray whose pellets you can then scrub through drying to a storable moisture level.

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