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🐝 Bee Venom and Apitherapy

Interactive 3D sting-mechanism model where triggering a simulated sting shows venom components like melittin and enzymes diffusing into tissue, with a toggle exploring apitherapy claims.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A cutaway 3D model of skin tissue showing exactly what happens when a honeybee's barbed stinger embeds and its venom sac keeps pumping — with the venom's key components spreading through tissue as a swelling forms.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Melittin, phospholipase A2, hyaluronidase and apamin are released in their real relative proportions and diffuse outward at different rates, driving pain, allergic response, venom spread and the localized wheal.

🎮 How to Use

Trigger a sting, adjust venom dose and diffusion speed, highlight a single component to track it, and flip on apitherapy mode to compare a controlled micro-dose against a full sting.

💡 Did You Know?

Because the stinger is barbed, it tears free of the bee and keeps injecting venom via the still-attached muscle and sac — one reason a lodged stinger should be scraped out quickly rather than squeezed.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D sting-mechanism model where triggering a simulated sting shows venom components like melittin and enzymes diffusing into tissue, with a toggle exploring apitherapy claims.

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