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🍓 Pollination Partnerships: Beekeepers and UK Berry Growers

How UK beekeepers and berry growers can build workable pollination arrangements across strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, including tunnel systems and contract terms.

Economics & Social Systems3DModerate60 FPS

A 3D polytunnel where rented honeybee colonies forage down rows of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries or blackberries — flowers brighten as bees visit them, and coverage fades toward the far end of the tunnel.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Bee foraging range inside a polytunnel is limited and shaped by colony density and ventilation, so pollination coverage decays with distance from the hives rather than being uniform across the crop.

🎮 How to Use

Set the hive count and crop type, adjust tunnel length, and toggle open versus closed sides. Watch coverage stats and flower colour update as bees fly farther or fall short of the tunnel's far end.

💡 Did You Know?

Blueberries typically need several times more colonies per hectare than strawberries because their bell-shaped flowers require more visits, which is why pollination contract pricing varies so much by crop.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D polytunnel scene where rented honeybee colonies forage down rows of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries or blackberries; flowers brighten as bees visit and pollination coverage visibly decays with distance, colony density, crop type and ventilation.

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