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🐝 Climate Adaptation Strategies for Beekeeping Operations

Interactive 3D apiary dashboard where users adjust simulated temperature and rainfall trends across seasons and watch recommended adaptation measures like shading, feeding and ventilation trigger in response.

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An interactive 3D apiary that responds to temperature and rainfall trends across the seasons: watch shading, ventilation, supplemental feeding and flood risers deploy automatically as heat, drought and flood stress build.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Effective temperature and rainfall are computed from a season's baseline plus your trend sliders, driving heat-stress, drought and flood indices that determine which real-world adaptation measures a beekeeper would deploy.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a season, drag the temperature and rainfall trend sliders toward a heatwave, drought or wet spell, and watch the hives react — shade cloths unfold, ventilation fans spin, feeders fill in, and stands rise on flood risers.

💡 Did You Know?

A honeybee colony holds its brood nest near 35°C. Past roughly 38–40°C ambient, bees switch from foraging to evaporative cooling — fanning wings and spreading water — which draws heavily on colony energy reserves.

⚙ Under the hood

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