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🐝 How a Warming Climate Is Reshaping Life Inside the Hive

Shift spring warming and watch flower bloom timing race ahead of bee emergence, extend the varroa mite season, and drive colony health up or down in a live 3D hive-and-meadow model.

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A live 3D hive-and-meadow model where flower bloom timing and honeybee emergence follow separate seasonal curves — and warming pulls them apart.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Flowering plants respond strongly to spring warmth, while honeybee colony phenology shifts much more slowly. As the warming slider rises, the two bell curves on the timeline drift further apart, synchrony drops, and the bee cloud above the hive visibly thins.

🎮 How to Use

Raise spring warming to see bloom timing race ahead of bee emergence, scrub the day-of-year slider to explore the season, and toggle the extended mite season to add a second, compounding stress on colony health.

💡 Did You Know?

Some long-studied European plant species now flower two to three weeks earlier than in the mid-20th century — while their pollinators have shifted their activity by a much smaller margin, widening the mismatch each decade.

⚙ Under the hood

Shift spring warming and watch flower bloom timing race ahead of bee emergence, extend the varroa mite season, and drive colony health up or down in a live 3D hive-and-meadow model.

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