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🩺 Scoring Colony Disease Risk and Making Safer Treatment Decisions

Interactive 3D hive-health scorecard where inputting simulated symptoms and mite counts updates a risk score that recommends a treatment decision from a decision tree.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A 3D hive cutaway turns mite counts, brood pattern quality, adult mortality and visible symptoms into a single weighted risk score, then routes that score through a decision tree to recommend a treatment step.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each input contributes a weighted share of a 0–100 risk score shown on a colour-coded gauge. American Foulbrood always forces the most urgent branch of the decision tree, regardless of score, mirroring real reportable-disease protocols.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the mite, brood pattern and mortality sliders and pick a visible symptom. Watch mites appear on the comb, brood cells darken, the dead-bee pile grow, and the gauge needle plus recommendation panel update live.

💡 Did You Know?

Many extension services recommend treating when a sugar/alcohol wash finds more than about 3 mites per 100 bees during active season — a threshold this simulation's scoring builds on.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D hive-health scorecard where inputting simulated symptoms and mite counts updates a risk score that recommends a treatment decision from a decision tree.

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