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
Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb Conway calls this honeycomb a 3-RCO-trille, and its dual quarter cubille. The dual of a "runcic cubic honeycomb" is called a quarter cubille, with Coxeter diagram , with faces in 2 of 4 hyerplanes of the formula_3, [4,3] symmetry fundamental domain. Cells can be seen as 1/4 of dissected cube, using 4 vertices and the center. Four cells exist around 6 edges, and 3 cells around 3 edges. It is related to the runcinated cubic honeycomb, with quarter of the cubes alternated into tetrahedra, and half expanded into rhombicuboctahedra. This honeycomb can be divided on truncated square tiling planes, using