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🐝 Creating Pollinator Forage Corridors

Simulate how connecting isolated flower patches with a planted forage corridor changes pollinator crossing success versus leaving bare gaps between fragmented habitat.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS

A 3D landscape of flowering habitat patches spaced along a winding line, linked — or not — by a forage corridor whose coverage you control, with bees attempting to cross the gaps between patches.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Crossing success depends on the flowerless distance a pollinator must fly on stored energy alone: wider patch spacing lowers it, while a fuller forage corridor shortens the effective gap and raises the odds of a successful crossing.

🎮 How to Use

Set patch spacing and corridor coverage, choose how many patches sit in the landscape, and watch bees fly out from the hive patch — green trails mark successful crossings, red trails mark bees that turn back partway. Try dragging corridor coverage to 0% and then back up to see the outcome flip.

💡 Did You Know?

Many solitary bee species forage within just 100–300m of their nest, so a single mown, flowerless verge can functionally isolate a whole population from a nearby meadow — even one still within sight.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D landscape of fragmented flower patches linked by an adjustable forage corridor, where bees attempt to cross the gaps between patches and crossing success depends on patch spacing and corridor coverage.

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