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👑 Queen Rearing and Brood Management Equipment Explained

An interactive 3D grafting bar showing how larva age and nurse-bee strength determine queen-cell acceptance, growth and capping in queen rearing.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D cell-bar of grafted queen cups sits inside a starter-finisher colony: watch larvae get accepted or rejected, fed with royal jelly, capped with wax, and finally emerge as virgin queens.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Grafting success depends on larva age and nurse-bee strength. Accepted cups swell into peanut-shaped queen cells, get capped around day 3, and release a queen around day 10–11 of the compressed cycle shown here.

🎮 How to Use

Set how many cups are grafted, the larva age at grafting, and the nurse colony's strength. Toggle royal jelly visibility and watch the acceptance rate, day counter and emerged-queen count update live.

💡 Did You Know?

Any fertilised worker egg or very young larva can become a queen — diet alone determines caste. A larva fed royal jelly exclusively develops functional ovaries; one switched to worker jelly and pollen does not.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D grafting bar showing how larva age and nurse-bee strength determine queen-cell acceptance, growth and capping in queen rearing.

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