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ANIMAL ESTATES: honeybee

The beehive is an enclosed space, in which bees build their colony. The inside is an open structure and the bees fill it with the comb.

The honeycomb is made up of many hexagonal cells made of wax, which stack for both spatial and structural efficiently.

The cells become storage for pollen and honey, as well as larvae.