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💧 Moisture and Condensation Control in Beehives

Interactive 3D hive roof cross-section where toggling a moisture quilt or ventilation gap shows simulated warm, humid air condensing, or safely escaping, based on the chosen configuration.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS

A cutaway of a hive roof shows warm, humid air rising from an overwintering cluster and reacts differently depending on whether you seal the inner cover, open a ventilation gap, or fit a moisture quilt above it.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Rising vapor either condenses into cold droplets that fall back onto the cluster, streams sideways out through a ventilation gap, or is wicked up and slowly released by an absorbent moisture quilt.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a roof configuration, then adjust outside temperature, colony moisture output and cluster activity. Watch the condensation risk reading and the drip counter respond in real time.

💡 Did You Know?

Cold itself rarely kills an overwintering colony — cold water dripping from a sweating inner cover onto a tightly clustered colony is one of the most common preventable winter losses.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D hive roof cross-section where toggling a moisture quilt or ventilation gap shows simulated warm, humid air condensing, or safely escaping, based on the chosen configuration.

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