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possible to join them together. And if the middle group of bees allows
their part of the comb to slip slightly to the left or right, then it will be un-
able to join up properly with those on the left and right.
To return to our earlier brick-laying analogy, if a third person joins in
the work when the first two have started laying bricks from the two ends,
and if this person also begins laying bricks on the line, then confusion is
clearly likely to result. In this case, the location of the first brick laid by that
individual needs to be precisely calculated. If it’s placed incorrectly, there
will be gaps on either side of it.
Yet with bees, no such error ever occurs. Where the parts of the comb
join together are never visible. No matter how many bees work on the
task, they all work together in the most astonishing harmony, just as if
each one were a construction engineer.

Could You Make a Regular Comb Using Just a Pencil?
Perform a simple experiment to examine the task that bees perform
with another example. Start drawing hexagons on a piece of paper, trying
to bring them all together in the middle of the page. However, you must
try to ensure that no gaps are left between the hexagons, and none of the
hexagons are irregular. Most importantly, do this without using such
equipment as a compass and set square, and without making any calcula-
tions. You will find this very difficult, if not impossible. Imagine three or

four people starting from different points on the same piece of paper, and
you can see how difficult the task really is.
If you make a mistake, however, you can always erase it and start
again. Yet bees have no such similar opportunity. They make their honey-
combs in one go, making no mistakes at all.
As you can see from these examples, it is exceedingly difficult for a bee
to make equally perfect hexagons and then join these together to produce
the comb. Furthermore, the miracles in the perfect honeycombs that bees
have been constructing since they first came into existence do not end
here.

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