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🐝🏙️ Urban Beekeeping: Why Cities Can Be Surprisingly Good for Bees

An interactive 3D city block where you place a hive on a rooftop or in a courtyard and adjust green-roof coverage, season and the urban heat island offset to see how honeybee foraging activity and forage range respond.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D city block where a honeybee colony forages from a rooftop or courtyard hive, its activity driven by real urban factors: the heat island effect, seasonal change, and how much green roof and garden space is within flying range.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Urban heat can stretch a colony's daily and seasonal foraging window, but past a threshold it pushes bees into bearding and fanning instead of flying. Meanwhile, green-roof and garden coverage sets how much forage is actually reachable.

🎮 How to Use

Toggle the hive between a rooftop apiary and a ground courtyard, pick a season, and drag the green-cover and heat-island sliders to watch forager counts, nectar intake and hive status respond live.

💡 Did You Know?

Because city plantings bloom in a longer, staggered sequence than farmland monocultures, urban colonies often match or beat rural ones on forage diversity and overwintering survival.

⚙ Under the hood

beesurban ecologyhoney productionforagingpollinationcity lifeThree.js

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