As their colonies grow, bees and wasps eventually need to increase the size of the hexagonal cells that make up their nests. But it’s hard to efficiently combine hexagons of different sizes into a single continuous array. Both the honeybees and wasps have solved this problem by mixing in some pairs of five-sided and seven-sided cells, which bridge the gap between different sizes of the six-sided hexagons.
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How Geometry Solves Architectural Problems for Bees and Wasps, Science News
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