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🚚 Reducing Stress During Migratory Bee Transport

A 3D cutaway of a hive on a moving flatbed, showing how vent opening, ambient heat, road speed and jostling combine to raise or calm colony stress.

Animals & Their World3DModerate60 FPS

A cutaway hive rides strapped to a moving flatbed truck, showing how vent opening, ambient heat, road speed and route roughness combine to push a colony's internal temperature and stress level up or down in real time.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Internal hive temperature depends on the colony's own metabolic heat, outside air temperature, and convective cooling from airflow — which only exists if vents are open and the truck is moving. Road jostling adds a separate mechanical stress on top of heat stress.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust vent opening, ambient temperature, truck speed and road roughness. Watch the internal temperature readout, airflow particles through the screened vent, and the bee cluster's color shift from calm gold to agitated red as stress rises.

💡 Did You Know?

Migratory beekeepers often load and move hives at night, when bees are inside and temperatures are lower, specifically to avoid the compounding heat-and-motion stress this simulation visualizes.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D cutaway of a hive on a moving flatbed, showing how vent opening, ambient heat, road speed and jostling combine to raise or calm colony stress.

beesstresstransporthivecolonybehaviorThree.js

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