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
Order-8-3 triangular honeycomb construction as a uniform honeycomb, Schläfli symbol {∞,(8,∞,8)}, Coxeter diagram, , with alternating types or colors of cells. Order-8-3 triangular honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-8-3 triangular honeycomb (or 3,8,3 honeycomb) is a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) with Schläfli symbol {3,8,3}. It has three order-8 triangular tiling {3,8} around each edge. All vertices are ultra-ideal (existing beyond the ideal boundary) with infinitely many triangular tilings existing around each vertex in an octagonal tiling vertex figure. It is a part of a sequence of regular honeycombs with order-8 triangular tiling cells: {3,8,"p"}. It is a part of