Beekeeping businesses live or die on a handful of numbers: how much honey each colony produces, what it costs to keep that colony alive, how many colonies survive winter, and what's left over once the bills are paid. This scene turns an apiary of managed colonies into a 3D dashboard — each hexagonal stack is one hive, and its height and colour encode two of the most important business KPIs at once.
Many commercial beekeepers track "revenue per surviving colony" rather than raw honey yield, because a business can lose money even with a strong average yield if colony losses run high enough that fixed costs are spread across too few surviving hives.
A 3D apiary dashboard where every hexagonal hive stack encodes real business KPIs — honey yield, contribution margin, and winter survival — while a rear bar trio tracks aggregate revenue, cost and profit live.
Hive height maps to yield per colony, hive colour maps to per-hive contribution margin, and toppled grey hives represent winter losses — showing how productivity, cost and mortality combine into overall business health.
Adjust colony count, yield per hive, honey price, cost per hive and winter loss rate. Watch surviving colonies, total honey, revenue, cost, profit and margin update instantly across the whole apiary.
Because fixed costs are usually paid per colony regardless of survival, a business can hit a strong average honey yield yet still post a loss if winter losses run high enough to shrink the surviving-hive count.