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🐝 Setting Up Apiary and Honey Tours

Place a visitor group, a rope safety barrier and a smoker around a 3D apiary and watch bee agitation, flight paths and a live visitor-safety score respond to your choices.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS💨 Air & Wind
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A 3D visitor apiary where you place the rope safety barrier, size the tour group and switch the weather and smoker on and off to see bee agitation, flight-path crossings and a live visitor-safety score respond.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Hive entrances face away from the visitor arc, foragers commute out along low flight lanes, and agitation rises with wind and falls with smoker use — the same variables a real apiary-tour risk assessment weighs.

🎮 How to Use

Set the group size, drag the barrier distance out or in, pick a weather setting, and toggle the smoker. Watch the bee cloud, flight lanes and the safety-score chip update immediately.

💡 Did You Know?

Smoke doesn't put bees "to sleep" — it masks the alarm pheromone and triggers a feeding response, which is why a lit smoker at the entrance measurably calms a colony during a tour.

⚙ Under the hood

Place a visitor group, a rope safety barrier and a smoker around a 3D apiary and watch bee agitation, flight paths and a live visitor-safety score respond to your choices.

beeshivesimulationanimals3d modelbehaviorThree.js

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

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