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🐝 UK Heather Migration Route Planner

Interactive 3D map of UK moorland and farmland where scheduling hive transport shows how migratory beekeeping times colonies to regional heather and forage bloom windows.

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A 3D route across England, from southern oilseed-rape farmland through Midlands lime and clover to northern heather moorland, showing how migratory beekeepers time hive transport to a moving wave of bloom.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each region's forage blooms in its own short window through the year. Nectar flow and honey yield depend on whether the hives are physically present in a region while it is blooming, not on the calendar date alone.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the week-of-year slider to move through the season. Leave "Follow recommended schedule" on to see the optimal migratory route, or switch it off and pick a site yourself to see the yield penalty of bad timing.

💡 Did You Know?

Heather honey is thixotropic — it gels and resists spinning out of the comb — so beekeepers press it instead, one more reason the moorland leg of the migration is planned so precisely around the August bloom.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D map of UK moorland and farmland where scheduling hive transport shows how migratory beekeeping times colonies to regional heather and forage bloom windows.

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