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 dodecahedral honeycomb 3-sphere, with 2 hemispherical cells. There are nine uniform honeycombs in the [5,3,5] Coxeter group family, including this regular form. Also the bitruncated form, t{5,3,5}, , of this honeycomb has all truncated icosahedron cells. The Seifert–Weber space is a compact manifold that can be formed as a quotient space of the order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb. This honeycomb is a part of a sequence of polychora and honeycombs with icosahedron vertex figures: This honeycomb is a part of a sequence of regular polytopes and honeycombs with dodecahedral cells: The rectified order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has alternating icosahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a