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🍯 Comb Management and Frame Rotation Best Practices

Interactive 3D hive box where you rotate and replace frames across simulated seasons, with a comb-age slider showing darkening comb and rising disease risk versus a well-maintained rotation schedule.

Biology2DModerate60 FPS

A cutaway hive box holds ten comb frames whose colour and mottled disease-risk overlay darken with simulated age, so you can compare a neglected hive against a well-maintained rotation schedule.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Comb darkens and accumulates pathogen and residue risk the longer it stays in the hive. A staggered rotation schedule keeps the average comb age — and disease risk — low, while no rotation lets both climb unchecked.

🎮 How to Use

Click a frame to select it, then drag its age slider or hit "Replace selected frame" to reset it. Choose a rotation schedule and click "Advance 1 season" repeatedly to watch the hive's average age and risk evolve.

💡 Did You Know?

Guidelines from bee-health agencies generally recommend cycling out about a third of brood comb every year, so no frame in active use is older than roughly three seasons.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D hive box where users rotate and replace frames across simulated seasons, with a comb-age slider showing darkening comb and rising disease risk versus a well-maintained rotation schedule.

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