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
Cubic honeycomb and its dual triangular pyramidille. Four cells exist around each vertex: The "cantitruncated cubic honeycomb" can be orthogonally projected into the euclidean plane with various symmetry arrangements. Cells can be shown in two different symmetries. The linear Coxeter diagram form can be drawn with one color for each cell type. The bifurcating diagram form can be drawn with two types (colors) of truncated cuboctahedron cells alternating. The dual of the "cantitruncated cubic honeycomb" is called a triangular pyramidille, with Coxeter diagram, . This honeycomb cells represents the fundamental domains of formula_2 symmetry. A cell can be as 1/24 of a