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-5 cubic honeycomb and pentagonal prism cells, with an octahedron vertex figure. It is analogous to the 2D hyperbolic rhombitetrapentagonal tiling, rr{4,5}, with square and pentagonal faces: It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) runcinated cubic honeycomb, t{4,3,4}: The runcitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb or runcicantellated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb , has cube, dodecahedron, and pentagonal prism cells, with a quad-pyramid vertex figure. It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) runcitruncated cubic honeycomb, t{4,3,4}: The omnitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb or omnitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb has Coxeter diagram . It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) omnitruncated cubic honeycomb, t{4,3,4}: In 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, the alternated