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⏱️ How Much Time Does Beekeeping Really Take?

A 3D annual time-budget wheel around a model apiary, turning hive inspections, feeding, varroa treatment and honey extraction into monthly hour bars you can flex by hive count and experience.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

Twelve monthly bars arranged in a circle around a model apiary turn hive inspections, feeding, varroa treatment, honey extraction and admin/equipment time into a single annual time-budget wheel.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Beekeeping time is heavily seasonal: April–August inspections and swarm control dominate, autumn brings feeding and varroa treatment, and winter is mostly quiet admin — a pattern beginners rarely expect from a "weekly hobby."

🎮 How to Use

Set the number of hives, pick an experience level, adjust the inspection interval, and toggle honey extraction on or off. Watch the monthly bars and the annual, peak-week and winter-month stats update instantly.

💡 Did You Know?

A single hive inspection may only take 20–30 minutes, but travel, suiting up, record-keeping and equipment cleaning routinely double or triple the real time cost — which is exactly what the "admin" segment captures here.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D annual time-budget wheel around a model apiary, turning hive inspections, feeding, varroa treatment and honey extraction into monthly hour bars you can flex by hive count and experience.

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