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🔬 Bee Research Citizen Science Network

A 3D network of UK apiaries feeding hive-inspection data into shared research databases like BeeBase and COLOSS, showing how citizen science scales monitoring.

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Apiaries scattered across a stylised map send glowing data packets to a central research hub whenever an inspection is logged — a model of how UK beekeepers' hive records aggregate into national datasets like BeeBase and COLOSS.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Individually small, routine hive inspections become a large, statistically useful dataset once enough apiaries report consistently — the core logic behind national bee-monitoring recording schemes.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the number of participating apiaries and how often they report, switch the season to see activity change, and pick which kind of data (health, varroa, weight) is being submitted.

💡 Did You Know?

COLOSS's annual overwintering-loss survey and the National Bee Unit's BeeBase system both rely almost entirely on voluntary beekeeper-submitted records to track colony health across whole countries.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D network of UK apiaries feeding hive-inspection data into shared research databases like BeeBase and COLOSS, showing how citizen science scales monitoring.

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