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🍯 Pollen Patty Recipes: Formulating Protein Supplements for Colonies

Formulate a pollen patty by crude-protein content and forage dearth, place it on the top bars of a 3D hive cutaway, and watch bee visits, patty consumption and brood production respond live.

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A 3D hive cutaway shows a pollen patty resting on the top bars of the brood frames, with bees flying between the patty and the comb, shrinking the patty and filling brood cells as they convert protein into larval food.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Brood-cell provisioning speed depends on how closely a patty's crude-protein percentage matches the colony's seasonal demand, how much natural pollen is already coming in, and how strong the colony is.

🎮 How to Use

Set the patty's crude-protein %, dial in natural forage availability, pick a season and colony strength, then watch the protein-match score, patty size, bee traffic and brood-fill percentage respond live.

💡 Did You Know?

Most research finds diminishing returns above roughly 25–30% crude protein — bees cannot convert surplus protein into brood food any faster, so matching demand beats maximizing protein content.

⚙ Under the hood

Formulate a pollen patty by crude-protein content and forage dearth, place it on the top bars of a 3D hive cutaway, and watch bee visits, patty consumption and brood production respond live.

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