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🐝 Beehive Colony: Agent-Based Model

A 3D agent-based model of a honeybee colony: thousands of role-driven bees forage, nurse brood, guard the entrance and thermoregulate the hive while you steer population, season and disease pressure.

Biology & Life2DAdvanced60 FPS

Thousands of individually-simulated bees nurse brood, forage a flower field, guard the entrance and fan the hive to temperature — a colony-wide "superorganism" pattern that emerges from simple, role-based individual behaviour.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each bee follows only a handful of rules tied to its role, yet the colony as a whole keeps its brood nest warm, its stores full and its entrance defended — a textbook example of emergent, decentralised organisation.

🎮 How to Use

Set population, season and forager ratio, then watch the dashboard respond. Toggle disease pressure to see vitality and brood coverage degrade, and use the speed controls to fast-forward whole seasons.

💡 Did You Know?

A strong summer colony can hold 40,000–60,000 bees and still hold its brood nest within about two degrees of 35°C, entirely through collective fanning and clustering — no single bee is in charge.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D agent-based simulation of a honeybee colony: role-based bee agents, brood development, thermoregulation, foraging, and swarm pressure, all driven by adjustable population, season and disease controls.

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