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🐝 Honey Bee Biology, Anatomy and Communication Lab

An interactive 3D honey bee: switch between queen, worker and drone to see labeled head-thorax-abdomen anatomy, then watch a colony cutaway where population, caste ratio, brood-cycle speed and queen pheromone spread all respond live.

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A labeled 3D bee specimen you can switch between queen, worker and drone, set beside a living hive cutaway where colony population, caste ratio, brood-cycle speed and queen pheromone spread all respond live.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Head, thorax and abdomen are built and labeled differently for each caste — the queen's elongated egg-laying abdomen, the worker's pollen basket and barbed stinger, the drone's oversized eyes and stinger-less body — while the comb cutaway shows brood cells cycling from egg to capped pupa to adult.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a caste to inspect its labeled anatomy on the pedestal. Adjust colony population and drone share to repopulate the flying cutaway, speed up the brood cycle, and toggle queen pheromone to see how its influence tints nearby workers.

💡 Did You Know?

Drone eyes are so enlarged that they meet at the top of the head — a single-purpose adaptation for spotting queens against the sky during high-altitude mating flights.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D honey bee lets you switch between queen, worker and drone to inspect labeled head-thorax-abdomen anatomy, then explore a linked colony cutaway where population, caste ratio, brood-cycle speed and queen pheromone spread all respond live.

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