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🐝 Colony Recovery After Transport: The First 48 Hours

A 3D cutaway hive that models the first 48 hours after a colony is moved: reorientation flights fade, foraging traffic rebuilds, brood coverage grows and robbing risk rises or falls as you adjust entrance width, queen status and pressure from nearby colonies.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D cutaway hive that models the two most fragile days after a colony has been moved: reorientation flights taper off, foraging traffic rebuilds, brood coverage grows only if the queen survived, and robbing risk rises with a wide-open entrance and pressure from nearby colonies.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Orientation flights, forager traffic, brood buildup and robbing risk all evolve on different timelines after a move, and entrance width and queen status change every one of them.

🎮 How to Use

Scrub through hours since transport, narrow or widen the entrance reducer, dial up pressure from nearby colonies, and toggle queen status to see the hive's activity and risk respond in real time.

💡 Did You Know?

A colony's guard bees can only defend as much entrance as their numbers allow — that is why a narrowed entrance is one of the simplest, most effective post-move safeguards against robbing.

⚙ Under the hood

beeshivecolonyinsectsimulationbiologyanimalsThree.js

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