A beekeeper stands beside a hive while a swarm of bees circles them. The suit worn determines how much of the body is covered by sting-proof mesh and fabric, and how much heat builds up underneath it. This model turns three real trade-offs from bee-suit design into a live 3D scene: coverage versus gaps, fabric weight versus airflow, and calm handling versus defensive bees.
Ventilated suits use a three-layer "spacer fabric" — two mesh layers a few millimetres apart — so a bee's stinger cannot reach the skin even when it lands directly on the fabric, while the air gap lets convection carry body heat away far faster than a single-layer cotton or polycotton suit.
A beekeeper stands in a swarm while you switch between a full suit, a jacket/half-suit and a ventilated suit, watching how coverage, seams and airflow change sting protection and heat build-up in real time.
Each suit type trades sting-proof coverage against airflow: a full suit seals the whole body but traps heat, a jacket exposes the legs to gain mobility, and a ventilated suit uses spacer mesh to stay cool without opening real gaps.
Pick a suit type, then raise the temperature or bee defensiveness sliders and watch the protection and heat-stress readouts respond, with occasional bees probing exposed zones and airflow particles showing where heat escapes.
Modern ventilated suits use two layers of mesh held apart by a few millimetres of spacer fabric — close enough together that no bee stinger can bridge the gap, but far enough apart to let convection carry heat away.