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🍯 Where UK Beekeeping Is Heading

A 3D market-floor chart of UK beekeeping segments — hobbyist, commercial, urban and tech-enabled — showing how market share, smart-hive adoption, honey prices and colony losses shift from 2015 to 2032.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D market floor where six UK beekeeping segments grow into hexagonal towers, their height and colour tracking whichever trend — market share, tech adoption, honey price or colony loss — you choose to follow from 2015 to a projected 2032.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Hobbyist, small/large commercial, urban, tech-enabled and imported-honey segments each follow their own trajectory across four tracked metrics, rolling up into a floating dashboard and a multi-line trend chart.

🎮 How to Use

Scrub the year slider or hit Play to watch the market floor evolve, switch metrics to compare share, smart-hive adoption, price and colony loss, and toggle the 2015 ghost towers to see how far each segment has moved.

💡 Did You Know?

Sensor-based hive monitoring — once a niche research tool — is one of the fastest-moving lines here: illustrative figures put tech-enabled apiaries' adoption above 90% by the early 2030s, up from under a fifth in 2015.

⚙ Under the hood

beekeepinghoneyhivecolonybeesagricultureukThree.js

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