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🐝 What Starting Beekeeping Actually Costs in the UK

An interactive 3D stacked-hive cost tower that recalculates realistic UK first-year beekeeping costs as you change hive count, equipment condition, colony source and insurance.

Animals & Their World3DModerate60 FPS

An interactive 3D stacked-hive cost tower that recalculates realistic UK first-year beekeeping costs as you change hive count, equipment condition, colony source and insurance choices.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each hive-box "super" in the tower represents one cost category, with box height proportional to its price in pounds — showing at a glance which choices (new vs. secondhand equipment, nucleus vs. swarm) move the budget most.

🎮 How to Use

Set the number of hives, pick equipment condition and colony source, then toggle membership/insurance and extractor ownership. The tower reshapes live and the panel totals the first-year and ongoing costs.

💡 Did You Know?

Deferring the honey extractor purchase and borrowing one from a local beekeeping association at harvest time is one of the largest single savings a first-year beekeeper can make.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D stacked-hive cost tower that recalculates realistic UK first-year beekeeping costs as you change hive count, equipment condition, colony source and insurance.

бджільництвопчеликосмічні збідженнябіологіяекологіяутримання бджілThree.js

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