Eli5 why do bees create hexagonal honeycombs?

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Why not square, triangle or circle?

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Because hexagons are the bestagons.

Seriously though, it’s because honeycombs are created as circles – because bees are basically cylinders – and when you tightly pack circles together they naturally settle into a pattern of hexagons as that wastes the least amount of space.

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