Honeycomb for regulating an ideal wax temperature for building the comb. Honeycomb A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey. Honey bees consume about 8.4 lb (3.8 kg) of honey to secrete 1 lb (454 g) of wax, so it makes economic sense to return the wax to the hive after harvesting the honey. The structure of the comb may be left basically intact when honey is extracted from it by uncapping and
Order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb truncated octahedron and truncated icosahedron cells, with a tetrahedron vertex figure. The cantellated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, has rhombicosidodecahedron and cuboctahedron, and cube cells, with a triangular prism vertex figure. The cantitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, is a uniform honeycomb constructed with a coxeter diagram, and mirrored sphenoid vertex figure. The runcititruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, is a uniform honeycomb constructed with a coxeter diagram, and a quadrilateral pyramid vertex figure. Order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs). With Schläfli symbol {5,3,4}, it has four dodecahedra around