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🩺 Troubleshooting Beekeeping Problems

An interactive 3D hive cutaway where you dial in five classic beginner mistakes — over-inspection, ignored varroa, poor ventilation, overfeeding and overcrowding — and watch the matching symptoms appear on the bees, comb and entrance.

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A 3D hive cutaway that lets you dial in five classic beginner mistakes — over-inspection, ignored varroa mites, poor ventilation, overcrowding, and careless feeding — and watch the matching real-world symptom appear on the bees, comb and entrance.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each control maps to one recurring rookie mistake and its visible consequence: chilled, spotty brood; mites on comb; condensation on the crown board; swarm cells; and a robbing frenzy at the entrance — the same symptom-to-cause logic used in a real inspection.

🎮 How to Use

Move any slider or change the feeding style and watch the colony respond in real time. The live diagnosis panel lists every active problem along with its likely cause and the standard fix.

💡 Did You Know?

Varroa mites and winter starvation remain the two leading causes of colony loss for new beekeepers — both are preventable with a calm inspection routine and a mite-monitoring schedule.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D hive cutaway where five sliders/selects for classic beginner mistakes — over-inspection, neglected varroa checks, poor ventilation, overcrowding, and careless feeding — each drive a distinct visible symptom (chilled/spotty brood, mites on comb, crown-board condensation, swarm cells, robbing frenzy) alongside a live cause-and-fix diagnosis panel.

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