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🍯 Beekeeping Traditions of Continental Europe

An interactive 3D map of four continental European beekeeping traditions — Alpine bee houses, Mediterranean horizontal hives, Central European Dadant apiaries and Eastern European tree beekeeping — with season and apiary-scale controls.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A single stylised terrain places four continental European beekeeping traditions side by side — Alpine bee houses, Mediterranean log hives, Central European Dadant rows and Eastern European tree beekeeping — so you can compare their architecture, apiary scale and seasonal foraging rhythm.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each region's hive design reflects its climate and history: enclosed Alpine shelters against snow, sun-baked Mediterranean logs, standardised Central European boxes tied to EU traceability, and hollow-tree hives from Poland's UNESCO-listed forest tradition.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a region to fly the camera there and swap in its hive style. Slide through the seasons to change forager activity and terrain colour, adjust hives per apiary, and toggle the forage radius that underpins single-origin honey rules.

💡 Did You Know?

Poland's tree beekeeping (bartnictwo), still practised in the Białowieża forest, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2020 as one of Europe's oldest continuously used honey-harvesting methods.

⚙ Under the hood

beesbeekeepingapiarieshivehoneytraditionseuropeThree.js

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