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🌱 Spring Buildup: Feeding & Forage Planning Lab

A 3D hive-and-meadow lab showing why stimulative feeding only accelerates spring buildup safely when real pollen and nectar forage back it up.

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A hive cutaway with a syrup feeder sits beside a meadow whose bloom succession you control — showing why stimulative feeding only turns into real colony growth when planned forage backs it up.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Feeding pushes the queen's lay rate independently of the season, but larvae need pollen protein to survive. Without matching forage, part of that extra brood shows up as chilled, unreared cells instead of new bees.

🎮 How to Use

Set feeding and regional forage strength, scrub through the weeks of spring, and toggle forage planning to see how planting early bloomers shifts the meadow's bloom curve and closes the pollen gap.

💡 Did You Know?

Willow and dandelion can bloom two to three weeks before clover or fruit blossom — planning for those early sources is often what makes early stimulative feeding pay off instead of backfiring.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D hive-and-meadow lab showing why stimulative feeding only accelerates spring buildup safely when real pollen and nectar forage back it up.

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