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🌼 Bee Pollen: Collection & Nutrition

Interactive 3D forager bee model where watching pollen collection on the hind legs form into pellets leads into a nutrient breakdown panel of the collected pollen's composition.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

Watch a forager bee brush pollen from a flower's anthers, groom it into her hind-leg corbiculae, and pack it into a growing pellet — then read out the nutrient breakdown of what she's collected.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

The mechanical cycle of pollen foraging: contact with anthers, leg-grooming to comb fur, and packing grains into the pollen basket. The nutrient panel reflects lab-average protein, carbohydrate, lipid, moisture and mineral ranges for bee-collected pollen, tinted by flower source.

🎮 How to Use

Choose a flower source, adjust foraging speed and target pellet size, and toggle the leg-grooming animation. Watch the pellets on both hind legs grow after each visit until she reaches her target and flies home.

💡 Did You Know?

Bee-collected pollen is typically 15–30% protein by dry weight along with carbohydrates, lipids and micronutrients, which is why it's sold as a nutritional supplement — though it should be used cautiously by anyone with pollen allergies.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D forager bee model where watching pollen collection on the hind legs form into pellets leads into a nutrient breakdown panel of the collected pollen's composition.

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