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-5 cubic honeycomb t{4,5} with truncated square and pentagonal faces: It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) truncated cubic honeycomb, t{4,3,4}, with octahedral cells at the truncated vertices. Same as Bitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb The cantellated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has rhombicuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a wedge vertex figure. It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) cantellated cubic honeycomb, rr{4,3,4}: The cantitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has rhombicuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a mirrored sphenoid vertex figure. It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) cantitruncated cubic honeycomb, tr{4,3,4}: The runcinated order-5 cubic honeycomb or runcinated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb , has cube, dodecahedron,