CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to distinguish between artificial honeycombs and natural honeycombs

1. Distinguishing between artificial honeycomb and natural honeycomb

Artificial honeycombs are generally beehives and sampans made of beeswax, and their walls are thinner than natural honeycombs. Natural honeycombs are nests built by worker bees using the wax secreted by their own wax glands. Honeycombs are where bee colonies live and reproduce, and they contain countless hexagonal cells of different sizes, which are used to breed drones and worker bees.

Classification of honeycombs

Honey page type: This type of beehive is generally a domestic artificial beehive, built in a beehive and hung on the top of the beehive in a large block.

Lotus pod style: This type of hive is usually built by a small group of bees on the lower part of the eaves, window sills and stone steps, or by a large group of bees on tree branches, shaped like an upside-down lotus pod.

Underground type: This type of hive is built by bees in the soil. It is generally a single-chamber structure with varying shapes.

2. How to build an artificial honeycomb in Terraria

After killing the queen bee, there is a chance that a tool will drop, which can be used to make honeycomb blocks. As long as you put the materials in the backpack and use the tool, you can generate honeycomb blocks, and then you can slowly lay them out yourself. However, it should require a larger scale and is quite troublesome, so it is better to go to the jungle and find one again.

Background setting

After completing character customization, the game throws the player into a completely randomly generated pixel world. The tools at hand mean that the player needs to build things, explore the world and defeat monsters.

The entire game world is destructible. After destroying certain obstacles, you can find various resources such as stone, wood, iron ore or other equipment. Of course, as you go deeper, you will also encounter various monsters. The main task of the game is to let players use various resources to create various strange things according to their own ideas, so this gives players full motivation to explore.

After killing the queen bee, there is a chance that a tool will drop, which can be used to make honeycomb blocks. As long as you put the materials in the backpack and use the tool, you can generate honeycomb blocks, and then you can slowly lay them out yourself. However, it should require a larger scale and is quite troublesome, so it is better to go to the jungle and find one again.

After the queen bee dies, there is a chance that she will drop a tool for making honeycomb blocks. As long as you put the materials in your backpack and use the tools, you can generate honeycomb blocks, and then you can slowly lay them out yourself, but you should need a larger one...

3. Why are natural beehives semicircular, while artificial honeycomb foundations are rectangular?

Anyone who has seen wild beehives knows that wild beehives are all curved and never have corners. This makes it easier for the bees to gather in groups, and there will be no extra honeycombs or nest worms.

However, the artificial movable frame honeycomb is rectangular, and the nest foundation is also rectangular, which makes some nest foundations incomplete and there are gaps in the corners. Some beekeepers think this is unreasonable.

Changing from barrel culture to box culture is a qualitative change, which goes against the habits of bee colonies. But it does bring convenience to management, and if it can be used reasonably, it is indeed beneficial.

The beehive is square, so we must also make the honeycomb square to ensure that there are bees in every corner of the beehive, so that the bee colony can clean and maintain the hive environment. Otherwise, if there are too many empty spaces in the beehive and there are no bees to clean, bacteria, diseases and pests will breed, which is not good for the development of the bee colony.

You must remember that only by having bees in every corner of the beehive and cleaning every place can you prevent diseases and insect pests. As long as there are bees in every corner of the beehive, you don't have to worry about bee diseases and insect pests.

So, if the corners of the honeycomb you made are empty, it means that the bees are too sparse and the corners are not made. If the bees are dense, they will definitely be made straight. To judge whether the bee colony is dense, you can see whether the honeycomb is complete and whether the corners are full. If not, it means that the bees are too sparse and need to be corrected.

Some people say that the queen bee lays eggs in the middle, and the corners are useless. Of course, the corners are useful! Each honeycomb must have a laying area and a honey and pollen area. The middle is the laying area, and the corners are the honey and pollen areas. If there is honey, the bees will store honey and pollen in the corners so that they will not occupy the laying area, will not affect the queen bee's egg laying, and will also make it easier for the worker bees to feed the larvae!

Moreover, the honey stored around the beehive can prevent hunger and resist diseases and insect pests. The honey comb is easy to clean, and it is dangerous if there is not much honey on the brood comb. Honey has a good bactericidal and disinfecting effect. It is a barrier outside and prevents nest insects from invading easily.

Therefore, beekeeping must ensure that the bees can make complete honeycombs, with honey stored in the corners. Otherwise, bees will not be raised well.

4. How do bees build honeycombs?

The honeycomb is built by worker bees using the wax secreted by their own wax glands. The honeycomb is composed of countless cells of the same size, all of which are regular hexagons. Each cell is surrounded by other cells, and there is only a wax wall between two cells.

This structure formed by the arrangement of hexagons is called a honeycomb structure. The cells (called honeycombs) inside and outside the honeycomb are staggered halfway, and the point where the sides of the hexagons intersect is the center of the inner hexagon. This is to increase the strength and prevent the bottom of the honeycomb from cracking.

Additional information

Classification:

There are many types of bees, and the shapes of beehives are also varied. They can be roughly divided into three categories based on their shapes:

(1) Honey page type

Bees are generally domesticated, and their nests are built in artificial beehives (wooden boxes). The largest form is a block hanging on the top of the beehive. Beekeepers call it honey leaves. The honey leaves are removed and processed into honey or other honey products, such as royal jelly.

(2) Lotus style

Small groups of bees usually build their hives on the lower parts of eaves, window sills, stone steps, etc., with as few as 3-5 cells and as many as dozens. Large groups of bees build their nests on tree branches, which can be up to 50 cm in diameter, with hundreds of cells and a shape like an inverted lotus pod.

(3) Crypt type

Some bees build their nests in the soil. The ones we usually see are single-chamber structures. There are also underground hives built by bee colonies, but they are rarely seen, so it is impossible to describe their specific form.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Honeycomb

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Honeycomb

The honeycomb is built by worker bees using the wax secreted by their own wax glands. The honeycomb is composed of countless cells of the same size, all of which are regular hexagons. Each cell is surrounded by other cells, and there is only a wax wall between two cells.

This structure formed by the arrangement of hexagons is called a honeycomb structure. The cells (called honeycombs) inside and outside the honeycomb are staggered halfway, and the point where the sides of the hexagons intersect is the center of the inner hexagon. This is to increase the strength and prevent the bottom of the honeycomb from cracking.

Additional information

Classification:

There are many types of bees, and the shapes of beehives are also varied. They can be roughly divided into three categories based on their shapes:

(1) Honey page type

Bees are generally domesticated, and their nests are built in artificial beehives (wooden boxes). The largest form is a block hanging on the top of the beehive. Beekeepers call it honey leaves. The honey leaves are removed and processed into honey or other honey products, such as royal jelly.

(2) Lotus style

Small groups of bees usually build their hives on the lower parts of eaves, window sills, stone steps, etc., with as few as 3-5 cells and as many as dozens. Large groups of bees build their nests on tree branches, which can be up to 50 cm in diameter, with hundreds of cells and a shape like an inverted lotus pod.

(3) Crypt type

Some bees build their nests in the soil. The ones we usually see are single-chamber structures. There are also underground hives built by bee colonies, but they are rarely seen, so it is impossible to describe their specific form.

Beehive, (fengchao), is the English word for Comb. It is the place where bees live and reproduce, and is composed of honeycombs. Each honeycomb is suspended parallel to each other in the space inside the beehive and is perpendicular to the ground. The distance between honeycombs is 7 to 10 mm, which is called a bee path. Each honeycomb is composed of thousands of cells connected together, and is built by worker bees using the beeswax secreted by their own wax glands. The large and small hexagonal cells are used to cultivate drones and worker bees respectively, and the bottom surface is 3 rhombuses. The cells used to cultivate queen bees are called queen cells, which are shaped like drooping peanuts. They are temporarily built by the bee colony before swarming, mostly at the bottom and corners of the honeycomb. There are irregular transitional cells between the drone cells and the worker cells, and at the connection between the honeycomb and the nest frame, which are used to store honey and reinforce the honeycomb.

This time, we will introduce the amazing things about bees’ nests. When asked, “What shape is a bee’s nest?”, the children all answered loudly, “It’s a hexagon.” When asked again, “Why is it a hexagon?”, the children all tilted their heads, and some children answered interestingly, “Because bees have six legs.” Some people think that bees actually want to make a cylindrical nest. No one knows what bees are thinking, but it is undoubtedly to use the least amount of materials to create the most spacious space. Therefore, if the beehive is round or octagonal, there will be gaps, and if it is triangular or quadrilateral, the area will be reduced, so the hexagonal shape is the most efficient among these shapes.

This structure formed by arranging hexagons is called a honeycomb structure. Because this structure is very strong, it is used in the wings of airplanes and the walls of artificial satellites. The cells (called honeycombs) inside and outside the honeycomb are staggered by half, and the point where the sides of the combined hexagons intersect is the center of the inner hexagon. This is to increase the strength and prevent the bottom of the honeycomb from cracking. In addition, as can be seen from the cross-section, the honeycombs on both sides are facing upward.

The honeycomb is a strict hexagonal column. It has a hexagonal opening at one end and a closed hexagonal pyramid base at the other end, which is composed of three identical rhombuses. In the early 18th century, French scholar Malarch once measured the size of a large number of honeycombs. What surprised him was that all the obtuse angles of the rhombuses that formed the chassis of these honeycombs were 109°28′, and all the acute angles were 70°32′. Later, French mathematician König and Scottish mathematician Marc Lorraine calculated theoretically that if the least amount of material is to be consumed, the largest rhombus container can be made at this angle. In this sense, bees can be called "genius mathematicians and designers."

Worker bees feed their larvae in the cells and store honey and pollen. The honeycomb is formed at an angle of about 9 to 14 degrees to prevent the honey from flowing out. The ecology of bees and the structure of the honeycomb are really amazing, and can be said to be the work of nature. It can be seen that, apart from the still unknown world of bees, just looking at the honeycomb, it can be seen that human intelligence is far inferior to theirs in terms of natural creativity. Bees, as insects with excellent sociality, have survived and reproduced since the past, which is older than human history, and have brought us many benefits such as honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen and beeswax. At the beginning of the new century, when making the nest frame, the creativity and wonder of bees made us think deeply.

The honeycomb of bees is an amazing natural building. The honeycomb is a hexagonal chamber. The sealed honey in the honeycomb is naturally ripe honey, and the reddish brown is pollen.

The wax (liquid substance) is secreted through the four pairs of wax glands in its abdomen. Although this substance is in liquid form, after being secreted onto the mirror membrane of the wax gland, it condenses into wax scales when it encounters air. This is its first batch of materials. This wax scale is mixed with certain substances and then becomes mucus again. A group of bees spit out liquid at the same time to start building a nest. Each surface generally has three or four support points (each point is a bee, depending on the surrounding situation when the bees are building a nest). If there are three supports, the upper end will obviously become a plane (the common tangent plane of the three balls), and the contour along the plane will naturally be flat; if there are more than four support points (three on top and one on the bottom), under the action of mechanical principles, the four liquid balls will deform at their tangent points, and finally solidify in a stable shape (similar to the shape of dividing 6 planes from the center of a regular tetrahedron to its four vertices). As we all know, liquid (under uniform tension) has the property of shrinking to the smallest area. This has little to do with the type of liquid. Each center is composed of six plates with equal plane angles, which is the source of the lovely home of bees. During this construction process, bees have no idea why the mucus they secrete must condense into this shape, and they cannot promote or prevent this process. They do not know that this shape has mechanical rationality and material saving principles. They do not know this at all, and their ancestors have not taught them anything (knowledge) - except that the frame is constructed with liquid. If humans want to praise the mathematical talent of bees, I am afraid they are wrong. By the way, although the angles of the honeycomb are a miracle, the size varies greatly - any honeycomb, if you examine it carefully, there will always be different sizes, and even the sides are not equal (only the angles, which are basically error-free). This is because in the process of making the nest, the bees basically use their own bodies as a template, and the sizes of their bodies are different from each other.

Netizen's opinion: In fact, bees don't build hexagonal honeycombs at all, they only build "rough houses" that are almost cylindrical. When worker bees use the beeswax they secrete to build a cylindrical honeycomb, they heat it to about 40 degrees Celsius to melt the beeswax and make it flowable. Under natural conditions, beeswax will automatically form in the most energy-saving way according to some physical and geometric principles, that is, the cross-section will be hexagonal. "This process is easy to simulate, just let the thin cylinders of beeswax fit together and then heat it up," said Pirke. Netizen's opinion: In fact, bees don't build hexagonal honeycombs at all, they only build "rough houses" that are almost cylindrical. When worker bees use the beeswax they secrete to build a cylindrical honeycomb, they heat it to about 40 degrees Celsius to melt the beeswax and make it flowable. Under natural conditions, beeswax will automatically form in the most energy-saving way according to some physical and geometric principles, that is, the cross-section will be hexagonal. "This process is easy to simulate," Pielke said. "Just make thin cylinders of beeswax stick together and heat them." Netizen's opinion: Regular hexagons are stable, have large volume and save materials. Bees are so clever! Netizen's opinion: In fact, bees don't do this on purpose. Are they so clever? They originally wanted to make the honeycomb round, but the pressure between the circles made it hexagonal. Netizen's opinion: This is because the hexagonal honeycomb has the smallest building area and the largest volume. Netizen's opinion: Why do I feel that this is because among regular triangles, squares, and regular 5- and 6-sided rows, the regular hexagonal row has the largest volume? Netizen's opinion: Less beeswax is used to build such a honeycomb, and the bees do less work. Moreover, such a honeycomb is stable and well sealed, and it cannot be blown by wind or rained on.