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Why are the honey bee cells hexagonal?

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Why are the honey bee cells hexagonal?

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According to Jan Brozek the reasoning is that the hexagon tiles the plane with minimal surface area. That would mean that a hexagonal structure uses the least material to create a lattice of cells within a given volume.

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