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🍯 Timing the Honey Flow

A 3D forage calendar ring around a beehive where UK nectar plants bloom on their real seasonal windows, and temperature and rainfall sliders reshape the forecast nectar flow and the supering decision.

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A 3D forage calendar ring lays UK nectar plants out by their real bloom windows around a beehive, and lets you reshape the forecast nectar flow with the season, region, temperature and rainfall.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each plant patch only brightens and releases nectar particles when the rotating calendar pointer sits inside its bloom window, and temperature/rainfall multipliers throttle that raw bloom signal into an actual forecast flow.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the calendar-day slider or press Animate season to sweep through the year, pick a UK region to shift bloom timing, and adjust temperature and rainfall to see the flow forecast and supering advice respond live.

💡 Did You Know?

Below roughly 12–13°C most nectar-bearing flowers barely secrete and foraging bees stay home, which is why a warm spell during a bloom window matters as much as the bloom itself.

⚙ Under the hood

beeshoneyforagingweathernectarukcalendarpollinationThree.js

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