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🌾 Cover Crops as Bee Forage

Plant cover-crop mixes across a 3D arable field and watch how species diversity and coverage fill the summer nectar gap for honey bees.

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A 3D arable field where each plot is sown with a cover-crop species or left bare, blooming only within its real flowering window, so you can see exactly how species diversity and coverage close (or leave open) the mid-season nectar gap.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Every plot's bloom intensity is driven by a species-specific flowering window across the calendar year. A single fast species leaves long bare stretches; a diverse mix keeps something flowering almost continuously.

🎮 How to Use

Scrub the month slider, switch between a single species and a diverse mix, adjust how much of the field is planted, and toggle wildflower margins — then watch the forage index and foraging bee count respond.

💡 Did You Know?

Multi-species cover-crop blends have been recorded extending bee foraging activity by six to eight weeks compared with a single-species stand, while also protecting and rebuilding the soil beneath.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D arable field where each plot is sown with a real cover-crop species (clover, vetch, phacelia, buckwheat, mustard) that blooms only in its true seasonal window, letting visitors scrub through the year and see how species diversity, field coverage and wildflower margins close the mid-season nectar gap for foraging bees.

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