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🐝 Seasonal Entrance Management & Winter Preparation Checklist

An interactive 3D hive where you slide the entrance reducer, fit a mouse guard, toggle the moisture vent and step through the seasons to see traffic, condensation and predator risk change in real time.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D observation hive where you slide the entrance reducer, fit a mouse guard and toggle the moisture vent across the seasons to see how bee traffic, predator risk and condensation change together.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Entrance width trades off bee traffic and defensibility against ventilation; a sealed hive with no moisture vent condenses warm, humid cluster air on a cold roof and drips it back onto the bees.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a season to load realistic temperature and recommended entrance width, then override the width slider and the mouse guard / vent toggles to test your own setup against the live risk readout.

💡 Did You Know?

Condensation dripping onto a winter cluster is a bigger colony killer than cold air alone — a well-ventilated but well-insulated roof matters as much as a snug entrance.

⚙ Under the hood

beeshivewinterpreparationentrancemonitoringpredatorsThree.js

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