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🍯 Recognising and Correcting Colony Nutritional Deficiencies

A 3D brood-frame cutaway showing how falling pollen (protein) and nectar (carbohydrate) reserves turn a solid brood pattern spotty and starve the colony — and how feeding corrects it.

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A 3D brood frame lets you watch a colony's brood pattern, pollen band and honey band respond in real time as pollen and nectar reserves rise and fall — and recover as you feed the colony.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

The brood nest, pollen band and honey band all thin outward-in as reserves fall, reproducing the classic "spotty brood pattern" inspectors look for, while the disease overlay shows the scattered, non-edge-following pattern typical of brood disease for comparison.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the pollen and nectar sliders down to starve the colony and watch the pattern fragment, then use the pollen patty and syrup feed buttons to simulate feeding and watch the frame recover over a few seconds.

💡 Did You Know?

Because nurse bees ration food to the queen and larvae first, a real deficiency almost always shows up at the margins of the brood nest before it shows up in the centre — exactly the pattern reproduced here.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D honey bee brood frame built from instanced hex cells whose brood pattern, pollen band and honey band thin outward-in as protein and carbohydrate reserves drop, reproducing a real "spotty brood" starvation signature that recovers when you simulate feeding.

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