Bees provide many benefits. Honey consumed by humans. His flower pollinated the flowers. The interesting thing about this stinging animal is that its nest is composed of hexagon-shaped spaces. Why should a hexagon? What is the secret behind this?
There are various kinds of wake-ups, ie triangle, facet 4, facet 5, and facet 6, facet 7, and so on. This wake-up is actually an option for bees to make their nests. Consider the following picture.
Among the above builds, which makes sense for bees to make the nest is a triangle, rectangular, and 6-sided, because the build-up can be arranged continuously without leaving a blank. The visualization is like this.
This continuity can only be achieved in terms of 3, 4, and 6. Other aspects can not be arranged continuously like this. We take the example of the 8-point as in the following picture, which leaves small rectangular spaces when arranged.
So, among the existing builds, the bees have only 3 choices, namely the triangle, the 4th, and the 6th.
One function of honeycomb is to store honey. Therefore, it takes a large room so much honey that can be accommodated. But the problem is, to make bigger nest rooms, more materials are needed, so the bees have to work harder. Therefore, it is necessary to design an efficient nest room, with the least possible material, can be obtained as large as possible.
Now let's compare the efficiency between 3, 4, and 6 terms as the bee's choice to make the nest. The length of the wake-up rings represents the amount of material needed to make a beehive. While the wake-up area represents the size of the honeycomb room.
The honeycomb composer is a waxy substance. Say the bee has a "capital" candle to make a nest room with a circumference of 12 units. Now we calculate how much space can be made with each of the triangular, 4, and 6 rectangular designs. To simplify calculations, we assume that they all have sides of equal length (regular, equilateral).
From the above calculations, it appears that with the same circumference (12 units), building a hexagon generates the largest area of space compared to the triangle and the 4th. Thus, the hexagon is the most efficient design to maximize the use of existing candles. In addition to being efficient in terms of nest room width, the scientists claimed that building a hexagon is a sturdy structure when compared to other builds.
In fact, bees do choose 6 as a nest design, whereas a mathematical analysis is needed to determine the choice. Bees do not understand math. Then where did the bee gained this knowledge?