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🍯 Preventing Mould and Damp in Beehives

A cutaway hive interior where adjusting ventilation gaps and a moisture-absorbing quilt box shows simulated humidity levels and mould-growth risk responding in real time.

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A cutaway hive interior shows water vapour rising from the bee cluster, escaping through an adjustable upper ventilation gap, and being wicked away by an optional moisture-absorbing quilt box — with condensation and mould growth responding live to your settings.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Internal humidity is driven by colony moisture output and drained by ventilation and quilt absorption. When humid air meets a cold roof surface, condensation forms; sustained damp conditions let mould spots grow on the comb over time.

🎮 How to Use

Widen or close the upper ventilation gap, raise or lower the colony's simulated moisture output, change the outside temperature, and toggle the quilt box on or off. Watch humidity, condensation and mould risk update, then rotate the hive to inspect the comb.

💡 Did You Know?

A single overwintering colony can release several litres of water vapour over the cold months — without an escape route, that moisture condenses and drips straight back onto the cluster.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D hive interior where adjusting ventilation gaps and a moisture-absorbing quilt box shows simulated humidity levels and mould-growth risk responding in real time.

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