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🍯 Autumn Syrup Ratio Lab

A 3D hive cutaway where you mix sugar-to-water ratio, feed rate, feed type and ambient temperature to watch bees cap syrup into winter stores at different speeds and moisture levels.

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Mix sugar-to-water ratio, feed type, temperature and feed rate to watch a 3D hive comb fill and cap syrup into winter stores at different speeds and moisture levels.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Thicker 2:1+ syrup needs less water driven off before a cell can be capped, so it converts to sealed stores faster; thin 1:1 syrup behaves more like a spring nectar flow. Fondant sidesteps evaporation entirely but isn't stored in comb.

🎮 How to Use

Set the sugar:water ratio, pick syrup or fondant, adjust ambient temperature and feed rate, then watch the comb cells fill and cap while bees shuttle feed from the feeder. Reset the comb to try another combination.

💡 Did You Know?

Below roughly 10°C bees cluster tightly and barely move syrup down from a feeder — which is exactly why UK guidance pushes autumn feeding to be finished while afternoons are still reliably mild.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D hive cutaway where you mix sugar-to-water ratio, feed rate, feed type and ambient temperature to watch bees cap syrup into winter stores at different speeds and moisture levels.

beeshoneyautumnsyrupwinterhiveThree.js

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