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🛡️ Apiary Biosecurity and Notifiable Disease Protocols

Run a 3D apiary: dial in hive-tool hygiene, quarantine length for new colonies and inspection speed, then watch disease spread hive to hive — or get stopped cold by good biosecurity.

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A 3D apiary where you control hive-tool hygiene, new-colony quarantine length and inspection/reporting speed, then watch whether a foulbrood-style infection stays contained or spreads down the row — with a fenced quarantine pen for every new colony you introduce.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A glowing hive tool carries contamination from an infected hive to the next healthy one it visits unless the beekeeper cleans it; infected colonies are eventually reported and destroyed, and new colonies can smuggle in a hidden infection if quarantine is too short.

🎮 How to Use

Raise hygiene to slow transmission, shorten the reporting-speed slider to catch outbreaks sooner, set a longer quarantine period, then click "Introduce a new colony" and watch it clear the fenced pen — or get caught red-handed.

💡 Did You Know?

American foulbrood spores can survive for decades in comb and equipment, which is why UK law treats it as a notifiable disease requiring destruction of confirmed colonies by burning rather than treatment.

⚙ Under the hood

Run a 3D apiary: dial in hive-tool hygiene, quarantine length for new colonies and inspection speed, then watch disease spread hive to hive — or get stopped cold by good biosecurity.

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