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🧼 Apiary Hygiene: Sanitation Habits That Keep Disease Out

An interactive 3D apiary row where you choose how the hive tool gets sterilised between hives and see spore load travel — or get stopped in its tracks.

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A single hive tool moves down a row of hives during an inspection round, and whether it gets sterilised in between decides if disease spores stay contained to one hive or spread across the whole apiary.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Every hive contact both deposits and picks up "spore load" on the tool. A flame scorch or alcohol wipe between hives strips most of that load off before it reaches the next colony; skipping it lets contamination climb hive by hive.

🎮 How to Use

Choose a sterilisation method, set the row length and inspection speed, and toggle an unmanaged dead-out hive to see how a single neglected colony can seed an entire row if the tool is never cleaned.

💡 Did You Know?

American foulbrood spores can stay viable in old wax and hive woodware for over 40 years, which is exactly why experienced beekeepers scorch or dunk their hive tool between colonies — especially after opening a dead-out.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D apiary where a hive tool travels down a row of hives during an inspection round, letting you choose how it's sterilised between hives and watch spore-load contamination either spread hive to hive or get stopped cold.

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