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🍯 Royal Jelly Production & Harvesting Lab

A 3D cutaway of honeycomb cells where nurse bees secrete royal jelly to feed larvae — compare worker brood diet against grafted queen cells and simulate a harvest.

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A 3D cutaway of honeycomb cells where nurse bees secrete and top up royal jelly for developing larvae — switch between ordinary worker brood and a grafted queen-rearing frame, and simulate harvesting the pooled jelly.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Worker and drone larvae get royal jelly only for their first three days before switching to honey and pollen, while grafted queen larvae stay bathed in it continuously — the biological basis of caste determination and of commercial harvesting.

🎮 How to Use

Choose worker brood or queen-rearing mode, drag the larva age slider through the 0–6 day cycle, adjust nurse feeding rate to see more bees visiting cells, and press Harvest to pull jelly from queen cups and tally the yield.

💡 Did You Know?

UK beekeepers who raise their own queens graft day-old larvae into artificial cups with a fine grafting tool — the same technique, scaled up, is what commercial royal jelly producers use to harvest hundreds of milligrams per cell.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D cutaway of honeycomb cells where nurse bees secrete royal jelly to feed larvae — compare worker brood diet against grafted queen cells and simulate a harvest.

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