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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 186 points 2 years ago

The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago

And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 121 points 2 years ago

Hexagons are the bestagons

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

I'm very happy this has caught on.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

though his how to solve traffic video is abysmal

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 89 points 2 years ago
[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

Yes. Hexagons are the bestagons

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The hexagreatest

[-] danielbln@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

That's... thats a fly, with stripes for some reason.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

There are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Shove the babies in them! And barf on them!

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 25 points 2 years ago

Obsessive Compulsive Beesorder?

[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 18 points 2 years ago
[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Bugs love science, simple as

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Boy that’s One Committed Bee!

[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

You mean they skipped 4. Pointed polygons and chosen a hexagon instead. What's their problem with right angles.

[-] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 8 points 2 years ago

C'mon man, don't be a square.

[-] casino@feddit.nu 1 points 2 years ago

Less volume per unit of surface area

[-] maniel@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Why does it look like a fly?

[-] paradiso@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

sssshhhh is bee

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Interesting. I haven't really connected hexagons and circles like this.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

It's a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres

[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 years ago

Bees would be the best goddamn software architects...

this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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