🟤 Bee Glue: The Science of Propolis and Its Antimicrobial Power

How bees collect and use propolis, the resinous 'bee glue', for hive sealing, disease defence and mummifying intruders — and its chemistry.

Biology & Life3DModerate60 FPS

Watch resin foragers ferry sticky bud resin from a tree back to the hive, where it seals a wall crack or slowly mummifies an intruder — while an antimicrobial coating suppresses microbial load nearby.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Only a subset of the colony forages resin at any time; the deposited propolis coating both plugs gaps and — thanks to its chemistry — suppresses microbes on contact.

🎮 How to Use

Set the forager share, pick a target (wall crack or intruder), tune hive temperature and antimicrobial potency, and watch the coating and microbial-load readouts respond live.

💡 Did You Know?

When bees can't drag a dead intruder like a mouse out of the hive, they entomb it in propolis instead — a resin "mummy" that keeps it from rotting and spreading disease.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D lab where resin-foraging bees fly between a bud tree and the hive, sealing a wall crack or mummifying an intruder with propolis while an antimicrobial coating suppresses a nearby microbial-load particle field.

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