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🐝 How the Beekeeping Community Keeps Colonies Healthy

A 3D network of apiaries, mentors, a local association and the National Bee Unit — watch how quickly a disease alert reaches every hive depending on who is actually connected.

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A 3D network of apiaries scattered across a patch of countryside, linked (or not) to a local beekeeping association hub, personal mentors, and the national body above. Trigger a disease outbreak and watch the alert travel only along real connections.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Health information — a suspected foulbrood case, a swarm warning, a pesticide alert — can only spread along real links between beekeepers. Association membership and mentor relationships are those links; an isolated apiary with neither stays uninformed no matter how urgent the alert.

🎮 How to Use

Set how many apiaries exist, what share belong to the association, and what share have a mentor. Click "Report disease outbreak" to send an alert from a random hive and watch it race outward; then check how many hives were reached in time and how many were left isolated.

💡 Did You Know?

UK beekeepers report suspected notifiable diseases through the National Bee Unit's BeeBase service, but local BBKA-affiliated associations and informal mentor networks are often the first line of detection — spotting trouble during routine hive visits long before an official inspection.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D network of scattered apiaries, a local association hub, personal mentors and a national body — trigger a disease outbreak and watch the health alert travel only along real membership and mentorship links, showing why isolated hives get left behind.

beekeeping associationsBBKAmentorshipbeekeeping communityNational Bee Unitbee clubs

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