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🧪 Bee Pheromone Communication: Hive Language Lab

A 3D hive cutaway showing how queen substance, alarm pheromone and the Nasonov homing scent spread through a honeybee colony and change how workers behave.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

Choose a pheromone, watch it spread through a 3D hive cutaway as a drifting particle cloud, and see worker bees switch behaviour the moment the signal reaches them.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Queen mandibular pheromone pulls nearby workers into a calm retinue; alarm pheromone triggers a fast defensive rush that expands in pulsing waves; Nasonov scent forms a wind-blown plume that guides foragers back to the entrance.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a pheromone, then adjust emission intensity, airflow and colony size. Watch the responding-bee count and cloud radius update live, and toggle the translucent concentration field on or off.

💡 Did You Know?

Queen mandibular pheromone is a blend of at least five chemical components that only produce the full retinue and calming effect when released together — no single component works alone.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D hive cutaway where you switch between queen mandibular pheromone, alarm pheromone and Nasonov homing scent, watching each spread as a particle cloud while worker bees cluster, flee or home in response.

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