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🌡️ Brood Nest Thermoregulation (2D)

A 2D cross-section of a honeybee brood nest: dial outside temperature and cluster size, watch bees cluster/shiver or spread/fan, and see the core temperature hold near a simulated 35°C.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour2DModerate60 FPS⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion drives the same core-temperature model as the 3D brood-nest cutaway — core drift scales with outside-temperature deviation divided by cluster strength — through a plain cross-section canvas: watch the brood patch shift from blue to amber to red as the colony's cluster tightens to shiver in the cold or spreads out to fan in the heat.

⚙ Under the hood

2D cross-section brood-nest lab with a live core-temperature model, heat-map brood patch and a bee cluster that tightens or spreads with outside temperature, matching the 3D original's physics.

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