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
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