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Beekeeping Traditions Around the World (2D)

A 2D cross-section lab comparing five real hive traditions by comb capacity and honey fill, with a live honeybee winter-cluster thermal model that tracks heat generated versus heat lost as temperature drops.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
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This 2D companion strips the beekeeping-traditions scene down to a side-view cross-section so the numbers behind each hive stand on their own: switching between the Kenyan top-bar trough, European straw skep, hollowed log hive, stacked Langstroth boxes and open Himalayan cliff comb changes a published-order-of-magnitude internal volume and comb-face area, which combine with the honey-fill slider into a live honey-mass readout. A second, independent model drives the bees themselves — below roughly 14°C (57°F) honeybees stop foraging and pull into an insulating winter cluster to defend a ~35°C core, and the cluster's diameter, heat generated and heat lost are all recomputed from the population and temperature sliders in real time, so you can push the colony into a visible heat deficit.

⚙ Under the hood

2D cross-section hive-comparison lab with a comb-capacity model (volume × usable fraction × honey fill × honey density) and a honeybee winter-cluster thermal model (packing-density interpolation, radiated/convective heat loss vs metabolic heat generation).

beeshivehoneytraditionwinter clusterthermoregulation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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