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The Golden Ratio In Nature: Why Honeycombs are Hexagons.
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Why do bees perfer hexagons?
We're done!
Have you ever wondered why
bees store their honey in hexagons?
Hexagons ...
Marcus Terentius Varro
- Require least amount of wax to be built
- Holds maximum amount of honey
- No gap between cells
Probably not...
But why isn't it squares, or octagons?
Well mathematicians have looked at this question and have come to an interesting conclusion......
This discussion and theory is known as the Honeycomb Conjecture.
Which states that a regular hexagonal grid or honeycomb is the best way to divide a surface into regions of equal area with the least total perimeter
Varro was the one who proposed this theory in 36BC. Thousands of years later at the University of Michigan, in1999 Thomas Hales solved his thinking and Varro was indeed correct about his hypothesis: hexagons are the most compact.
Hales also produced mathematical proof
Ah hah!
The reason why bees build honeycombs in the shape of hexagons is because they are able to store the most honey.