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🟤 Propolis: Harvesting, Processing and Product Development

A 3D propolis-trap simulation: bees seal a slotted screen wherever the gap is smaller than bee space, then chill the trap and flex it to flake off harvestable propolis.

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A 3D propolis-trap simulation: bees seal a slotted screen wherever the gap is smaller than bee space, then chill the trap and flex it to flake off harvestable propolis.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Narrowing the trap's slot width below the ~6mm bee-space threshold makes far more of the screen "active", prompting foragers to seal it with resin. Warm propolis stays sticky; cold propolis turns brittle and flakes off cleanly when flexed.

🎮 How to Use

Narrow the trap gap to recruit more sealing bees, raise colony activity to speed up deposition, then chill the trap and hit "Chill & flex" to harvest — watch flakes fall into the collection tray and track the grams collected.

💡 Did You Know?

Commercial propolis traps rely entirely on this bee-space instinct rather than any training — the same reflex that makes bees glue frames together is what fills the slots for harvest.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D propolis-trap simulation: bees seal a slotted screen wherever gaps are smaller than bee space, and you chill and flex the trap to flake off harvestable propolis into a collection tray.

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