Eli5 why do bees create hexagonal honeycombs?

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Why not square, triangle or circle?

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Bees build their combs with cylindrical cells, the way the are arranged means they are touching six other cells. They are then turned into hexagon shapes by an unknown process. Hexagons are better than circles
Because there’s no space in between them.

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