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🍯 Brood Pattern Diagnostics: Reading the Comb

Interactive 3D honeycomb frame where cells can be toggled between healthy, spotty and diseased brood patterns, revealing likely causes and corrective actions.

Biology2DModerate60 FPS

An interactive 3D frame of brood cells that you can set to a healthy, spotty or diseased pattern — or hand-paint yourself — while a live diagnosis panel explains the likely cause and the corrective action a beekeeper would take.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A queen laying in a tight spiral produces a dense, near-solid sheet of capped brood. Scattered gaps, sunken cappings and discoloration each point to a different underlying problem — queen failure, Varroa pressure or brood disease.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a preset pattern or adjust the density and disease sliders, then click individual hex cells with the brush tool to paint your own comb. Watch the live percentages and diagnosis text update as you go.

💡 Did You Know?

Beekeepers routinely score brood frames this way during inspections — a frame with under 10% gaps is considered excellent, while over a quarter empty or irregular cells usually triggers mite counts or disease testing.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D honeycomb frame where cells can be toggled between healthy, spotty and diseased brood patterns, letting users diagnose the pattern and reveal likely causes and corrective actions.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install