Honeycomb one part per 2850) more efficient. This difference is too minute to measure on an actual honeycomb, and irrelevant to the hive economy in terms of efficient use of wax, considering wild comb varies considerably from any mathematical notion of "ideal" geometry. Bees used their antennae, mandibles and legs to manipulate the wax during comb construction, while actively warming the wax. During the construction of hexagonal cells, wax temperature is between 33.6 and 37.6°C, well below the 40°C temperature at which wax is assumed to be liquid for initiating new comb construction. The body temperature of bees is a factor
Icosahedral honeycomb part of a sequence of regular polychora and honeycombs {3,"p",3}: It a part of a sequence of regular polychora and honeycombs {"p",5,"p"}: There are nine uniform honeycombs in the [3,5,3] Coxeter group family, including this regular form as well as the bitruncated form, t{3,5,3}, , also called "truncated dodecahedral honeycomb", each of whose cells are truncated dodecahedra. The rectified icosahedral honeycomb, t{3,5,3}, , has alternating dodecahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a triangular prism vertex figure: There are four rectified compact regular honeycombs: The truncated icosahedral honeycomb, t{3,5,3}, , has alternating dodecahedron and truncated icosahedron cells, with a triangular pyramid vertex