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📡 RFID Tracking of Individual Honeybee Foraging Behaviour

Interactive 3D hive entrance with simulated RFID-tagged bees where tracking individual foragers' trip timing and duration plots foraging activity patterns across a simulated day.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A hive entrance fitted with an RFID antenna reads the tag on every forager as she leaves and returns, timing individual trips and building a live chart of colony activity across a simulated day.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each tagged bee's exit and return reads are matched to compute trip duration, exactly as real RFID hive-monitoring studies do — revealing daily activity rhythms and per-bee foraging patterns.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust colony population, day speed and weather, then pick a bee ID to track. Watch her highlighted trail and trip log while the amber antenna ring flashes on every RFID read.

💡 Did You Know?

Real hive RFID systems can log tens of thousands of reads per day from a single entrance, letting researchers reconstruct the complete foraging career of every bee in a colony.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D hive entrance with simulated RFID-tagged bees where tracking individual foragers' trip timing and duration plots foraging activity patterns across a simulated day.

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