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🏡 Managing Neighbour Disputes and Flight Paths in Urban Apiaries

Interactive 3D urban garden scene where users raise flyway barriers and reposition hive orientation to redirect bee flight paths above head height, reducing simulated encounters with neighbours.

Biology2DEasy60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

A 3D urban garden where you raise a flyway barrier next to a hive, tune how close it sits to the entrance, rotate the hive's orientation, and adjust the distance to the boundary fence — watching a live flight path and risk score respond as bees are forced to climb above head height before reaching the neighbour's yard.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A hedge or screen placed close to the hive entrance forces a much steeper climb than the same barrier set farther away, while rotating the entrance away from the boundary can remove the flight path from the neighbour's yard entirely.

🎮 How to Use

Move each slider and watch the glowing flight tube bend and change colour — green means bees clear head height at the fence line, red means they don't. Toggle the neighbour's yard to compare risk with and without the barrier in place.

💡 Did You Know?

Many municipal beekeeping ordinances require a flyway barrier of about 1.8m (6ft) within a few feet of the hive entrance whenever colonies sit close to a property line, precisely because it reliably lifts foragers above head height.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D urban garden scene where users raise flyway barriers and reposition hive orientation to redirect bee flight paths above head height, reducing simulated encounters with neighbours.

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