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🐝 Beekeeping and Vegetable Farms: Building a Working Partnership

How market gardens and diversified vegetable farms can work with beekeepers to improve pollination of cucurbits, brassica and allium seed crops, while keeping bees safe from spray programmes.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A 3D market garden where a beekeeper's hive forages across rows of cucurbit, brassica or allium seed crop, while a neighbouring field's spray programme drifts against a protective no-spray buffer.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Hive placement and colony strength drive pollination coverage across crop rows, while a no-spray buffer and evening spray timing — both real IPM practices — cut bee exposure to drift from neighbouring fields.

🎮 How to Use

Move the hive closer or farther from the field, add foragers, choose a seed crop, then toggle the neighbouring spray programme and compare midday against dusk timing while watching bees at risk and pollination rate.

💡 Did You Know?

Cucurbit, brassica and allium seed crops rely heavily on insect visits because their flowers are self-incompatible or produce pollen too heavy and sticky for wind to move effectively.

⚙ Under the hood

How market gardens and diversified vegetable farms can work with beekeepers to improve pollination of cucurbits, brassica and allium seed crops, while keeping bees safe from spray programmes.

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