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🐝 Preventing Bee Stings: Calm Handling and Apiary Design

An interactive 3D apiary where you control approach speed, smoker use, flight-path hedges and hive entrance orientation to see how each choice changes guard-bee agitation and sting risk.

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An interactive 3D apiary where a walking beekeeper, four hives, a footpath and an optional hedge respond in real time to your choices about movement, layout and smoke — showing exactly how guard-bee agitation and close encounters build up or fall away.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Guard-bee agitation is modelled from proximity, movement style, entrance-to-path angle, hive spacing, smoker use and a flight-path hedge — the same practical levers UK beekeeping guidance recommends for reducing stings.

🎮 How to Use

Slide the approach manner from calm to jerky, rotate hive entrances relative to the footpath, adjust hive spacing, and toggle the smoker and the flight-path hedge. Watch the agitation bar, bee colour and close-encounter counter respond live.

💡 Did You Know?

A hedge or fence roughly head-height in front of a hive entrance forces bees to gain altitude before they reach a path, turning a low, disruptive flight line into a high, unnoticed one.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D apiary with four hives, a footpath, a walking beekeeper and instanced guard bees where a live agitation score responds to approach manner, hive-entrance angle, hive spacing, smoker use and a flight-path hedge.

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