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
Cubic-square tiling honeycomb constructions exists with symmetry [(4,4,(4,3)*)], index 48 and an ideal regular octahedral fundamental domain. Cubic-square tiling honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the cubic-square tiling honeycomb is a paracompact uniform honeycomb, constructed from cube and square tiling cells, in a rhombicuboctahedron vertex figure. It has a single-ring Coxeter diagram, , and is named by its two regular cells. It represents a semiregular honeycomb as defined by all regular cells, although from the Wythoff construction, rectified square tiling r{4,4}, becomes the regular square tiling {4,4}. A lower symmetry form, index 6, of this honeycomb can be constructed with [(4,4,4,3*] symmetry,