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🩺 A Quantitative Disease Risk Score for Honey Bee Colonies

Combine mite load, hygienic behaviour, drift exposure and brood-break status into a single composite colony disease risk score, and watch a live hive respond.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

Four real early-warning indicators — mite load, hygienic behaviour, drift exposure and brood-break status — combine into one weighted composite risk score, driving a live dial and a hive of bees that visibly calm or grow agitated as risk changes.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each indicator is normalised and weighted (mite load 35%, hygienic deficit 30%, drift exposure 15%, brood-break lapse 20%) into a single 0–100 composite score, shown as four bar-chart pillars and a needle gauge, exactly as combined risk models are built in practice.

🎮 How to Use

Move the four sliders to change mite counts, hygienic removal rate, drift exposure and time since the last brood break. Watch the pillars, the gauge needle, the risk badge and the bee swarm's colour and agitation respond in real time.

💡 Did You Know?

A colony with a moderate mite count but excellent hygienic behaviour can carry less real risk than one with a lower mite count but poor hygiene and heavy drift — which is exactly why composite scores outperform single-metric thresholds.

⚙ Under the hood

Combine mite load, hygienic behaviour, drift exposure and brood-break status into a single composite colony disease risk score, and watch a live hive respond.

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