Re:Why nature prefers hexagons
by dt_rsp on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:42AM
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Jürgen Tautz's "The Buzz about Bees" mentions this.
It says the bees build cylindrical cells around themselves initially, but then raise the temperature of the wax to 37-40 degrees C, when the wax is warm enough to flow into the hexagonal shapes.
It says the bees build cylindrical cells around themselves initially, but then raise the temperature of the wax to 37-40 degrees C, when the wax is warm enough to flow into the hexagonal shapes.
(Pages 172-176)