How do bees build nests?

Bees' nests are made of wax boards. A hexagonal honeycomb with several plates hanging from the upper part of the honeycomb to the lower part and neatly arranged on both sides is called the nest spleen. The space of the nests and spleens in the hive is parallel to each other and perpendicular to the ground, and the distance between the nests and spleens is 7 ~ 10 mm, which is called bee path.

Each nest spleen consists of thousands of nests, which are built by worker bees with beeswax secreted by their wax glands. Large and small hexagonal nests are used to cultivate drones and worker bees respectively, and there are three diamond-shaped faces at the bottom. The nest room for cultivating queen bees is called queen bee platform, which looks like drooping peanuts. It is temporarily built by the bees before the bees are divided, mostly in the lower part and corner of the nest spleen. There is an irregular transition nest between the drone house and the worker house, as well as the joint between the nest spleen and the nest frame, which is used to store honey and strengthen the nest spleen.

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Structure:

The internal structure of a beehive is called a beehive. Honeycomb consists of a series of hexagonal cells made of beeswax. This hexagonal structure is called honeycomb structure. Just half of the nests (called nests) inside and outside the hive are staggered from each other, and the intersection point of the sides of the combined hexagon is the center of the hexagon. This is to improve the strength and prevent the bottom of the nest from breaking. In addition, it can be seen from the cross section that the direction of the nests on both sides is upward.

Honeycombs are strictly hexagonal cylinders. It has a hexagonal opening at one end and the bottom of a closed hexagonal pyramid at the other end, which consists of three identical diamonds.

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