Busy bees can build the right hive from tricky foundations (IMAGE)

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Busy bees can build the right hive from tricky foundations

Caption

Pattern used when the bees are provided with a foundation of 0.75 times their preferred size, showing how they block some of the cells to convert to their preferred size.

Credit

Golnar Gharooni-Fard (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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