bees

Scientists Crack the Mathematical Mystery of Stingless Bees’ Spiral Honeycombs - Smithsonian The waxy architectural wonders seem to grow like crystals The same mathematical model that explains how crystals grow can also explain how tropical stingless bees build honeycombs in spiraling...

A beehive is an enclosed, man-made structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive.