Re: Geometry too
I think the ruler is the bee itself. The workers are pretty well standard in size. Regular hexagons are optimal for packing units into an area so if bees are making bee-sized cells as close together as possible regular hexagons are what are produced.
The really interesting geometry is projecting a scaled map of a the horizontal route to a food source onto the vertical surface of the comb.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
