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Koshovi Basket Hive: Living-History Apiary Simulator

Explore a woven koshovi basket hive across a season: adjust the shell insulation, watch the fixed comb fill toward its non-expandable limit, then compare a destructive traditional harvest against a modern welfare-adapted one that lets the colony survive.

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Long before the movable-frame hive, beekeepers across Eastern Europe kept bees in woven wicker baskets plastered with clay — the koshovi tradition, a cousin of Britain's straw skeps. This simulator lets you watch a season unfold inside one of these fixed-comb hives: adjust the shell's weatherproofing, follow the comb as it fills toward a hard limit the basket's own shape imposes, and compare the historical destructive harvest against the removable-panel adaptation modern living-history apiaries use to keep the colony alive.

⚙ Under the hood

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