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🔥🐝 Wildfire Smoke Contingency Planning for Apiaries

Steer a wildfire smoke plume toward a row of beehives and toggle relocation and entrance-sealing to see how each contingency measure changes colony stress.

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A wildfire's smoke plume drifts across a row of beehives; steer the fire's bearing, distance and intensity, then toggle relocation and entrance-sealing to see colony stress rise and fall in real time.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each hive's smoke exposure scales with fire intensity and falls off with distance along the wind path. Relocating hives behind a windbreak and fitting entrance-reducer boards each independently cut exposure and stress.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the bearing, distance and intensity sliders to move and grow the fire, then flip the relocate and seal-entrance toggles to compare contingency strategies against the live stress readout on each hive.

💡 Did You Know?

Smoke exposure disrupts a colony's alarm and Nasonov pheromones, so heavy smoke events can trigger defensive clustering or absconding well before flames are anywhere near the apiary.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D apiary scene where users drag a simulated smoke plume toward hives and toggle contingency measures like relocation and sealing entrances to see effects on colony stress levels.

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