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🐝 Pollination Ecology & Ecosystem Services Lab

A 3D wildflower meadow where bees fly between plant species, cross-pollinating flowers into seed while you control pollinator numbers, colony decline and habitat diversity.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS

A live 3D meadow where bees forage across wildflower species, carrying pollen from plant to plant — and where cross-pollination between same-species flowers is drawn out as a growing golden network.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each bee remembers the species of the last flower it visited; landing on a different plant of the same species completes a pollination event and grows a seed pod, while lower pollinator numbers or habitat diversity sharply cut the share of flowers ever pollinated.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust pollinator population, wildflower diversity and density, and drag the pollinator decline slider to see a colony-collapse-style scenario play out on seed-set and network connectivity in real time.

💡 Did You Know?

Around 87% of the world's flowering plant species depend at least partly on animal pollinators — far beyond the crops that make it into a supermarket.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D wildflower meadow where bees forage between plant species, cross-pollinating flowers into seed while sliders let you control pollinator numbers, colony decline and habitat diversity, with a live golden pollination network showing which plants have been successfully fertilised.

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