Honeycomb 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 spinning in a centrifugal machine—the honey extractor. If the honeycomb
Dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb Dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb is a uniform honeycomb, constructed from dodecahedron, icosahedron, and icosidodecahedron cells, in a rhombicosidodecahedron vertex figure. Wide-angle perspective views: There are 5 related uniform honeycombs generated within the same family, generated with 2 or more rings of the Coxeter group : , , , , . The rectified dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from icosidodecahedron, and rhombicosidodecahedron cells, in a cuboid vertex figure. It has a Coxeter diagram . The cyclotruncated dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from truncated dodecahedron, icosahedron cells, in a