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🐝 Environmental Enrichment for Honeybee Welfare

A 3D apiary model where forage diversity, water access, noise and artificial light combine into a live colony stress index and forager activity you can watch change.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS💧 Water

A 3D apiary where forage diversity, water access, noise pollution and artificial light combine into a live colony stress index, changing how many bees forage and how calmly they fly.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Mixed flowering forage and close, reliable water reduce colony stress and keep more foragers active, while road noise and night lighting raise stress, shake the hives and jitter forager flight paths.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust forage diversity, water distance and noise pollution, then toggle night lighting and the windbreak hedge. Watch the stress index, foraging efficiency and active forager count respond in real time.

💡 Did You Know?

A windbreak hedge does double duty for an apiary: it buffers noise and turbulent wind, and diverse forage within about 1–2km of a hive is one of the strongest predictors of colony nutrition and winter survival.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D apiary model where forage diversity, water access, noise and artificial light combine into a live colony stress index and forager activity you can watch change.

beeshoneyapiarysimulationecologyforageThree.js

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