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🐝 Beekeeping Troubleshooting: A Symptom-to-Solution Diagnostic Guide

Pull a frame from a 3D beehive cutaway, dial in brood pattern, colony strength, stores and mite load, and watch a live diagnosis map the symptoms you see to their most likely cause.

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Pull an inspection frame from a 3D beehive cutaway and dial in the signs a beekeeper actually looks for — brood pattern, colony strength, stores and mite load — while a live diagnosis panel maps what you see to its most likely cause and next action.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

The comb texture is generated cell by cell from your slider values, so a "spotty" brood pattern, thin stores, or mites on cappings are visually distinct — the same signals a beekeeper reads off a real frame during an inspection.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a symptom preset to jump straight to a textbook case, or move the brood, population and stores sliders yourself and toggle mites on to see the diagnosis update live.

💡 Did You Know?

Beekeepers nickname a scattered, "shotgun" brood pattern for its resemblance to a shotgun blast through the comb — it's one of the most common reasons colonies get requeened.

⚙ Under the hood

Pull a frame from a 3D beehive cutaway, dial in brood pattern, colony strength, stores and mite load, and watch a live diagnosis map the symptoms you see to their most likely cause.

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