Eli5 why do bees create hexagonal honeycombs?

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Why not square, triangle or circle?

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They don’t, they make them round and they naturally become haxagonal when they set since that’s the most optimal and strongest way of filling the space without collapsing.

You can see the same thing with soap bubbles on water. When lots of them get squeezed together on the surface the ones toward the middle become hexagonal.

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