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❄️ Emergency Cold Snap Protection for Beehives

A 3D cutaway hive where you apply emergency wrap insulation, an entrance reducer, a moisture quilt and an emergency candy board during a sudden hard freeze, watching the winter cluster's core temperature, condensation and starvation risk respond in real time.

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A cutaway hive showing a winter cluster of bees under a sudden hard freeze — apply an emergency wrap, entrance reducer, moisture quilt and candy board and watch core temperature, condensation and starvation risk respond.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

The cluster actively defends a warm core near 34°C by contracting its outer mantle in the cold; how well it succeeds — and whether condensation or isolation starvation threatens it — depends entirely on which fast emergency protections are in place.

🎮 How to Use

Drop the outside temperature to simulate a sudden freeze, then toggle the wrap, entrance reducer, moisture quilt and candy board on and off to see their combined effect on the live stats and the 3D hive.

💡 Did You Know?

A candy board placed in direct contact with a winter cluster is often the single fastest emergency intervention — unlike syrup, which can freeze solid, solid sugar stays available exactly where the bees can already reach it.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D cutaway hive with a live winter cluster where toggling an emergency wrap, entrance reducer, moisture quilt and candy board, plus dropping the outside temperature, changes cluster contraction, core/mantle temperature, condensation risk and isolation-starvation risk in real time.

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