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🌼 Bee-Friendly Landscaping Design for Urban Apiaries

Design principles for creating pollinator-supportive landscaping around urban apiaries within tight space, pollution, and neighbour-relation constraints.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A small urban plot with a hive, a screening hedge, container plantings and a neighbour's fence — showing how landscaping choices redirect bee flight paths and forage traffic.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A flyway hedge in front of the hive entrance forces departing bees to climb steeply, lifting the flight path above head height well before it reaches the fence line — the core trick behind good neighbour relations in tight urban apiaries.

🎮 How to Use

Raise the hedge, add container rings, change bloom density and season, and watch the estimated exposure risk and forage-visit rate respond as bees fly between the hive and blooming pots.

💡 Did You Know?

Many city beekeeping ordinances specifically require a 6ft (1.8m) flyway barrier within a few feet of the hive entrance — height near the hive matters more for redirecting bees upward than raw distance to the property line.

⚙ Under the hood

Design principles for creating pollinator-supportive landscaping around urban apiaries within tight space, pollution, and neighbour-relation constraints.

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