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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This whole time bees were drawing Satanic summoning circles, also originally known as Pagan fertility stars before Christians culturally appropriated it.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hexagons are the bestagons

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  • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m very happy this has caught on.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      though his how to solve traffic video is abysmal

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• Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah yes, bestagons

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  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. Hexagons are the bestagons

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    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The hexagreatest

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• danielbln@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tiger fly

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  • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• finkrat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shove the babies in them! And barf on them!

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Obsessive Compulsive Beesorder?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, this is how I relate to bees.

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• CJOtheReal@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bestagons

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• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bugs love science, simple as

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boy that’s One Committed Bee!

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• mtchristo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    C’mon man, don’t be a square.

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  • casino@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Less volume per unit of surface area

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• Abracadaniel@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe the hexagonal tiling maximes area while minimizing perimeter, right?

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s just what happens when wax deforms from pressure. You can do the same thing with plastic straws, if you pack them tightly, or compress them with your hands.

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  • Abraxiel@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A circle should have the greatest area per perimeter and I can’t think of a regular polygon with more sides that tessellates.

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• chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Magnetar@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see en.wikipedia.org/…/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres

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    • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fascinating.

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• maniel@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why does it look like a fly?

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  • paradiso@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sssshhhh is bee

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• BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bees would be the best goddamn software architects…

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