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🌍 Global Beekeeping Practices: How Different Countries Keep Bees

A 3D comparison lab showing how hive design, apiary regulation and migratory practice differ between the UK, USA, France and Kenya — pick a region and watch the apiary respond.

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Four apiary stations — the UK, USA, France and Kenya — sit side by side in one 3D scene, each with its region-typical hive design, so you can pick a country and instantly compare hive shape, apiary scale, legal spacing and migratory practice.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Hive architecture is shaped by climate, cost and commercial scale: stacked National/Langstroth boxes in the UK and US, tapering Warré-style hives in France, and low-cost horizontal top-bar hives in Kenya — plus how migratory pollination trucking dominates in the US but is rare elsewhere.

🎮 How to Use

Choose a region to fly the camera to that apiary and read its snapshot stats. Drag colony activity to change how many bees are foraging, toggle migratory transport to watch a pallet truck load and move hives, and toggle the regulation ring to see typical spacing/registration rules.

💡 Did You Know?

Roughly 1.5–2 million US colonies are trucked into California every February for almond pollination — the single largest managed pollination event on the planet — while the UK has no statutory minimum distance between hives at all.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D comparison lab showing how hive design, apiary regulation and migratory practice differ between the UK, USA, France and Kenya — pick a region and watch the apiary respond.

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