Photograph of honeycomb (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Photograph of honeycomb

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Photograph of honeycomb, with color overlay showing the cell tilt of each hexagonal cell. Bees have merged three pieces of comb (worker comb at left and right; drone comb at center).

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Image credit: Michael L. Smith.

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