These Bees Build Spiral Combs Using The Same Structural Development That Forms Crystals
A Modern field publish in theJournal of the Royal Society Interfacesaw British and Spanish researchers take a rich dive into the cockscomb ofTetragonula , a stingless bee from Southeast Asia and Australia , to realize how , without some sort of combing pattern , these beast could so consistently create these complex structure . They found that the off-the-wall spiral shape of their nests , which have long been a source of disarray for scientist , are crafted in a pattern that is similar at a molecular level to crystal ontogeny ....