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 dodecahedral honeycomb The runcitruncated order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has truncated dodecahedron, icosidodecahedron and pentagonal prism cells, with a distorted square pyramid vertex figure. The omnitruncated order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has truncated icosidodecahedron and decagonal prism cells, with a disphenoid vertex figure. Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb The order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol {5,3,5}, it has five dodecahedral cells around each edge, and each vertex is surrounded by twenty dodecahedra. Its vertex figure is a regular icosahedron. The dihedral angle of a Euclidean regular dodecahedron is ~116.6°, so no more than