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🩺 Pollinator Health Monitoring Lab

A 3D cutaway hive rigged with a thermal brood sensor, a Varroa sticky board, an electronic scale and an entrance beam-counter, so you can see how sensor readings flag colony trouble before a visual inspection would.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A cutaway 3D beehive rigged with four real early-warning instruments — a brood thermal probe, an under-hive weight scale, a Varroa sticky board and an entrance IR beam-counter — so you can see how sensor readings drift out of range before a colony problem becomes visible.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Moving the brood temperature slider away from 35°C paints cold or hot patches on the thermal-camera overlay; a falling weight trend, rising mite drop and thinning entrance traffic each push the combined colony health score down, mirroring how a real monitoring dashboard flags trouble.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the four sensor sliders and watch each instrument's readout and status label update live. Toggle the sensor overlay to switch the frames between a plain visual-inspection view and the false-color thermal sensor view.

💡 Did You Know?

Continuous hive-monitoring studies have found that weight and temperature anomalies can show up one to three weeks before a colony's decline is visible on a manual inspection, giving beekeepers a genuine early-warning window.

⚙ Under the hood

beeshivesensorscolonymonitoringthermalThree.js

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