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🐝⚖️ UK Beekeeping Legal Requirements, Regulations and Insurance

An interactive 3D apiary showing how hive registration, boundary distance, insurance cover and notifiable-disease alerts interact in UK beekeeping compliance.

Education & Learning Tools3DModerate60 FPS

An interactive 3D apiary that turns registration, boundary distance, insurance and disease-control rules into things you can see happen: a glowing beacon, a colour-coded compliance ring, a translucent insurance dome and an approaching bee inspector.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

How several independent compliance factors — voluntary registration, neighbour-friendly siting, liability cover, and statutory disease control — combine around the same apiary, each with its own visible signal in the scene.

🎮 How to Use

Set the number of hives and their distance from the boundary fence, toggle registration and insurance, then switch on a notifiable-disease alert to watch a Bee Inspector arrive under statutory powers.

💡 Did You Know?

Registering on BeeBase is free and not legally required in England and Wales, but it's the main way the National Bee Unit can warn you before a notifiable disease reaches your own hives.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D apiary where sliders and toggles for hive count, boundary distance, Defra/BeeBase registration, insurance cover and a notifiable-disease alert each drive a visible change in the scene — a compliance ring, a registration beacon, an insurance dome and an approaching bee inspector.

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