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🐝 Pollution Monitoring and Mitigation for Apiaries

Model how distance, wind and source type change the pollution load reaching a beehive, and how that translates into contamination risk for honey, wax and pollen.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

An interactive 3D model of a beehive downwind of a pollution source, showing how distance, wind alignment and source type combine to set the contamination load reaching the colony — and how that load partitions differently into honey versus wax.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Contamination decays roughly exponentially with distance and is amplified when the wind carries the plume straight at the hive. Wax, being lipophilic, accumulates persistent residues faster than honey — the model applies different multipliers to each matrix.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the apiary's distance from the source, the wind's alignment toward the hive, source intensity, and source type (traffic, industrial, agricultural spray). Watch the drifting particle plume, the ground contamination footprint, and the live risk stats respond.

💡 Did You Know?

Because foragers range several kilometres from the hive, honey and pollen are sometimes used as low-cost biomonitors for regional heavy-metal and pesticide trends, flagging contamination before it shows up in soil or water testing.

⚙ Under the hood

Model how distance, wind and source type change the pollution load reaching a beehive, and how that translates into contamination risk for honey, wax and pollen.

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