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🐝 Resolving Beekeeping Disputes: Neighbours, Land, and Legal Conflicts

An interactive 3D apiary-siting model showing how boundary setback, flight-path direction, hedge screening and pesticide drift combine to raise or lower the risk of a neighbour dispute.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

An interactive 3D apiary-siting model where boundary setback, hedge screening, flight-path direction and pesticide drift combine into a live dispute-risk score, letting you see how each siting decision changes the outcome.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

The three physical roots of most beekeeping neighbour conflicts — a low flight line crossing into a garden, insufficient screening at the boundary, and pesticide exposure from a sprayed field — modelled together so their combined effect on risk is visible.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the hive setback, hedge height, and flight-path bearing to see bees climb (or fail to climb) clear of the boundary. Toggle spraying and rotate the wind direction to see pesticide drift particles reach or miss the apiary.

💡 Did You Know?

A flyway barrier of roughly 2m within a few metres of the hive entrance forces bees to gain height quickly and is one of the most effective, permission-free ways to prevent low-flight-line disputes with neighbours.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D apiary-siting model showing how boundary setback, flight-path direction, hedge screening and pesticide drift combine to raise or lower the risk of a neighbour dispute.

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