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🐝 Bee Conservation and the Ecological Stakes of Pollinator Decline in the UK

Adjust wildflower habitat cover, pesticide exposure, wild bee diversity and season to watch a 3D meadow's pollination network strengthen or collapse in real time.

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A 3D meadow where wildflower habitat cover, pesticide exposure, wild bee diversity and season interact to determine how much real pollination actually happens.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Shrinking wildflower habitat, higher pesticide exposure and lower species diversity all independently reduce the pollination rate — showing why the UK's ~270 wild bee species, not just managed honeybees, matter for a resilient pollination network.

🎮 How to Use

Set habitat cover, pesticide exposure, wild bee diversity and season, then watch bees forage across the meadow. The live pollination rate, bee population and bloom count respond directly to your settings.

💡 Did You Know?

Around a third of UK wild bee and hoverfly species have declined in distribution since 1980, and roughly three-quarters of the world's flowering plants depend at least partly on animal pollinators.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D meadow of instanced wildflowers and foraging wild bees where wildflower habitat cover, pesticide exposure, wild bee species diversity and season drive a live pollination-rate simulation.

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