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🐝 Your First Week With a New Colony (2D): Cutaway Hive Timeline

A side-on 2D companion to the 3D hive: the same day-by-day model drives a flat cutaway view of the frames, queen cage and forager traffic through the critical first week.

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Same model, flatter view: a side-on cutaway of the hive frames, queen cage and entrance traffic driven by the day, colony source, feeding and inspection state — no orbiting camera, just a readable slice through the box.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Comb coverage, queen-cage release timing, forager numbers and colony stress respond to the day, colony source (nuc vs package), feeding and whether you open the hive.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the day slider through the week, switch nuc vs package, toggle the feeder, and open the hive to see the stress spike the plan warns against.

💡 Did You Know?

A package colony starts with zero drawn comb — every cell has to be built from bare foundation before the queen can lay in it.

⚙ Under the hood

2D side-view cutaway of a Langstroth hive using the same day-driven comb-growth, queen-release-timing and forager/stress model as the 3D original, rendered as flat frame panels instead of an orbiting 3D scene.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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