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🐝 Beekeeping Across Climate Zones

How temperate, continental, coastal, upland and arid climates each change the beekeeping calendar, and what beginners should adjust for their own conditions.

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A single Langstroth-style hive, shown in cutaway, reacting to the temperature curve, forage bloom and weather of five different climate zones as you move through the beekeeping year.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each climate zone has its own seasonal temperature curve and bloom window. Below the forage threshold the colony pulls into a shivering winter cluster that tightens as it gets colder; above it, foragers stream out to whatever is in bloom.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a climate zone and drag the month slider to watch temperature, bloom and weather change. Toggle the insulation wrap and entrance reducer to see how beekeeper interventions shift the cluster and flight threshold.

💡 Did You Know?

Honeybees generally stop flying below roughly 10–13°C; everything about a region's beekeeping calendar — feeding dates, inspection windows, wrapping — is really just working around that one number.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D cutaway hive that reacts to five climate zones (temperate, continental, coastal, upland, arid) across the year — showing the winter cluster tighten and loosen, forage bloom rise and fall, foraging bees fly out once it's warm enough, and matching weather (rain, snow, dust).

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