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🐝 Pesticide Exposure & IPM Lab

Interactive 3D field showing how spray dose, wind drift, buffer zones and spray timing change honey bee pesticide exposure and colony losses.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

A 3D flowering crop next to an apiary shows how spray dose, wind drift, buffer zone width and time of spraying combine to change how many foraging bees pick up sublethal or lethal pesticide exposure.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Bees foraging directly on a sprayed crop receive near-full concentration; bees in the buffer strip receive an exponentially decaying drift dose that depends on wind speed and buffer width. Cumulative exposure pushes bees from normal flight to disoriented "sublethal" wobbling to acute collapse.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust spray timing, dose, wind and buffer width, or click "Apply IPM best practice" to see the evening-spray, low-dose, wide-buffer combination UK guidance recommends. Watch the forager count, sublethal and acute-loss stats update live.

💡 Did You Know?

Because foraging activity collapses after dusk, simply moving a spray application from midday to evening can remove most of the bees that would otherwise ever contact the product — no change in chemistry required.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D field showing how spray dose, wind drift, buffer zones and spray timing change honey bee pesticide exposure and colony losses.

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