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Honeybee combs: how the circular cells transform into rounded hexagons.

B L Karihaloo1, K Zhang, J Wang.   

Abstract

We report that the cells in a natural honeybee comb have a circular shape at 'birth' but quickly transform into the familiar rounded hexagonal shape, while the comb is being built. The mechanism for this transformation is the flow of molten visco-elastic wax near the triple junction between the neighbouring circular cells. The flow may be unconstrained or constrained by the unmolten wax away from the junction. The heat for melting the wax is provided by the 'hot' worker bees.

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Keywords:  circular cell at birth; honeycomb; rounded hexagonal cell

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Year:  2013        PMID： 23864500      PMCID： PMC3730681          DOI： 10.1098/rsif.2013.0299

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J R Soc Interface        ISSN： 1742-5662            Impact factor:   4.118


  5 in total

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Authors:  Kai Zhang; Huiling Duan; Bhushan L Karihaloo; Jianxiang Wang
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2010-05-03       Impact factor: 11.205

2.  Viscosity of dental waxes by use of Stokes' law.

Authors:  B W Darvell; N B Wong
Journal:  Dent Mater       Date:  1989-05       Impact factor: 5.304

3.  Honeybee combs: construction through a liquid equilibrium process?

Authors:  C W W Pirk; H R Hepburn; S E Radloff; J Tautz
Journal:  Naturwissenschaften       Date:  2004-06-15

4.  Hot spots in the bee hive.

Authors:  Brigitte Bujok; Marco Kleinhenz; Stefan Fuchs; Jürgen Tautz
Journal:  Naturwissenschaften       Date:  2002-07

5.  Hot bees in empty broodnest cells: heating from within.

Authors:  Marco Kleinhenz; Brigitte Bujok; Stefan Fuchs; Jürgen Tautz
Journal:  J Exp Biol       Date:  2003-12       Impact factor: 3.312
  5 in total
  8 in total

1.  The bee Tetragonula builds its comb like a crystal.

Authors:  Silvana S S Cardoso; Julyan H E Cartwright; Antonio G Checa; Bruno Escribano; Antonio J Osuna-Mascaró; C Ignacio Sainz-Díaz
Journal:  J R Soc Interface       Date:  2020-07-22       Impact factor: 4.118

2.  The hexagonal shape of the honeycomb cells depends on the construction behavior of bees.

Authors:  Francesco Nazzi
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2016-06-20       Impact factor: 4.379

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Authors:  Saad N Al-Kahtani; El-Kazafy A Taha
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2021-12-03       Impact factor: 3.752

4.  Ordering and topological defects in social wasps' nests.

Authors:  Shivani Krishna; Apoorva Gopinath; Somendra M Bhattacharjee
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2022-07-28       Impact factor: 4.996

5.  Imperfect comb construction reveals the architectural abilities of honeybees.

Authors:  Michael L Smith; Nils Napp; Kirstin H Petersen
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2021-08-03       Impact factor: 11.205

6.  Evaluating and Comparing the Natural Cell Structure and Dimensions of Honey Bee Comb Cells of Chinese Bee, Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and Italian Bee, Apis mellifera ligustica (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

Authors:  Shunhua Yang; Shangkao Deng; Haiou Kuang; Danyin Zhou; Xueyang Gong; Kun Dong
Journal:  J Insect Sci       Date:  2021-07-01       Impact factor: 1.857

7.  Self-organization at the first stage of honeycomb construction: Analysis of an attachment-excavation model.

Authors:  Takayuki Narumi; Kenta Uemichi; Hisao Honda; Koichi Osaki
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2018-10-24       Impact factor: 3.240

8.  Mathematical modeling and computer simulation of the three-dimensional pattern formation of honeycombs.

Authors:  Darae Jeong; Yibao Li; Sangkwon Kim; Yongho Choi; Chaeyoung Lee; Junseok Kim
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2019-12-30       Impact factor: 4.379
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