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🌡️ What Keeps a Bee Colony Healthy

A 3D cutaway hive where you dial up Varroa infestation, brood disease and target temperature to watch the cluster's thermoregulation and hygienic behaviour respond in real time.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D cutaway hive showing the two survival systems of a honeybee colony at once — Varroa mites and brood disease spreading across the comb, and the worker cluster's thermoregulation shifting between shivering huddle and wing-fanned cooling.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Rising Varroa infestation and disease pressure darken and mark brood cells while eroding the composite health score; meanwhile brood-nest temperature drives the bee cluster between tight, shivering huddles and loose, fanning cooling behaviour.

🎮 How to Use

Move the Varroa, temperature and population sliders and pick a brood disease to see the comb and cluster respond live. Watch the thermal state label and health bar track the colony's overall condition.

💡 Did You Know?

A cluster of a few thousand bees can keep its brood core within half a degree of 35°C even when it is freezing outside — a feat of decentralised thermoregulation with no single bee in charge.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D cutaway hive where you dial up Varroa infestation, brood disease and target temperature to watch the cluster's thermoregulation and hygienic behaviour respond in real time.

beeshivevarroadiseasetemperaturecolonyThree.js

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