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🚚 Migratory Beekeeping: Logistics and Yard Planning

What it actually takes to move hives between forage sites safely and profitably, from permits and transport to yard selection and biosecurity.

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Follow a truckload of hives as it moves between three forage yards — an almond orchard, a citrus grove and a wildflower meadow — and see how load size, yard spacing and travel timing change colony outcomes.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each yard has a forage radius and carrying capacity; cramming in more hives than the bloom can support drops nectar intake per colony, while spacing hives too tightly raises drift and disease risk between colonies.

🎮 How to Use

Set the load size and yard spacing, pick a destination site, then dispatch the convoy and watch the truck drive the load in. Toggle night moves to see the effect on transport stress.

💡 Did You Know?

Commercial migratory beekeepers often move hives at night, after foragers return and entrances can be screened, because cooler temperatures and stationary bees make the trip far less stressful on the colony.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D truck-and-yard model where you load hives onto a convoy, set yard spacing, and dispatch them between an almond orchard, citrus grove and wildflower meadow, watching forage-radius domes and live nectar/spacing/stress readouts respond to your choices.

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