Scientist discover artistic crystal-like structure in Tetragonula bees' spiraling hives

In breakthrough research, scientists have found that Tetragonula honeybees create artistic beehives that have complex spirals, bullseyes, terrace-shaped combs, and or amazing structures.

In a study published in  Journal of Royal Society Interface, researchers detected unique beehives with abstract shapes that resemble molecular 3D arrangement of crystals. findings affirm that honeybees adopted a “mamatical blueprint” that adhered to laws of physics and constructed one of a kind hives like humans.  

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Speaking about stunning bee hives that depict 3D target-like honeycomb structures, researchers wrote, “In Tetragonula nests, we find a variety of brood comb structures in three dimensions that can be classified into spirals, and target like bullseye shaped patterns, double spirals and more disordered terraces.”

researchers furr added, “In a totally different field of science, crystals also grow in three-dimensional patterns with spirals and target patterns.” Explaining how se compact crystal-like structures evolved to gradually create a layered appearance, scientists said that bees created new cells to edges of each terrace which y filled with an egg before closing structure and keep repeating process. bees n use se layers, or terraces, to move around colony. 

"re is a beautiful mamatical equivalence between how molecules build a crystal and how bees build a bee comb", scientists wrote in Journal of Royal Society Interface.   

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Resemble Human Designs 

In ar striking resemblance of beehives with humans’ rule of designing se structures, scientists found that both stingless beehives and crystals adhered to so-called excitable medium.

In study, researchers explained that in construction of artforms as one layer was created and settled, rest of structure was easily erected furr. This rule was common in both stingless beehives and some of iconic molecular man-made structures.

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Hives resemble multi-story car park

Researchers compared  terraces in beehive to different levels in a man-made multi-story car park. y also found that bees relied utmost on  distinct lattice arrangement while making ir hives, which eventually created terraced and 3D structures.

“Both crystal growth and this bee comb construction are describable within mamatical framework of excitable media,” researchers wrote. “Crystals, slime molds, brain, heart, chemical oscillators, forest fires, and many or systems can function as excitable structures,” y added.  

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(Ims Credit: Journal of Royal Society Interface)