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🌼 Lawn Alternatives and Field Margins for Pollinators

A 3D landscape cross-section from crop field to garden lawn where margin width, hedgerow and mowing regime decide whether pollinators can move between habitat patches.

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A 3D cross-section lines up a crop field, a wildflower field margin, a hedgerow or woodland edge, and a garden lawn, so you can see how margin width, hedge presence and mowing regime decide whether pollinators can move the whole length of the corridor.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each habitat zone blooms on its own seasonal schedule and only holds forage when it is wide enough, present, or left uncut for long enough. A live connectivity score combines all three and drives how many pollinators shuttle the full corridor versus staying stranded in isolated patches.

🎮 How to Use

Set the garden's mowing regime, drag the field-margin-width and month sliders, and toggle the hedgerow on or off. Watch the connectivity score and bloom count update, then follow bees and hoverflies as they hop between whichever patches are actually flowering.

💡 Did You Know?

UK agri-environment schemes pay farmers to keep field margins and hedgerows specifically because scattered, well-connected patches support more pollinator species than the same area planted as one large block.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D landscape cross-section lines up a crop field, a wildflower field margin, a hedgerow/woodland edge and a garden lawn, letting you adjust margin width, hedge presence and mowing regime to see when pollinators can travel the whole corridor versus getting stranded in isolated patches.

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