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🐝 Building Good Relations with Beekeeping Neighbours

A 3D suburban apiary showing how a flyway barrier and hive placement lift the bees' foraging flight path over head height at the property line, cutting neighbour encounters.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

A 3D suburban apiary showing how a hedge, fence or trellis placed a few metres in front of the hive entrance forces foraging bees to climb well above head height before they ever reach the neighbour's garden.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Bees maintain their climb angle for some distance after clearing an obstacle. A tall barrier placed close to the entrance raises the crossing altitude at the property line far more than an open flight path does, cutting close encounters with people next door.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust barrier height and hive-to-fence distance and watch the flight trails shift from red (crossing through the head-height zone) to green (well clear of it). Toggle the barrier off to see the difference, and raise traffic to stress-test a layout.

💡 Did You Know?

UK beekeeping associations commonly recommend a roughly 2m (6ft) screen in front of the entrance as one of the simplest, most effective ways to keep foragers away from neighbours without moving the colony at all.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D suburban apiary showing how a flyway barrier and hive placement lift the bees' foraging flight path over head height at the property line, cutting neighbour encounters.

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