A beehive cell can be defined as hexagonal from a geometric point of view. At the beginning the bee builds perfect circles arranged in a specific order. Then, thanks to the heat generated by the bees at work, the wax softens and deforms so as to form a solid hexagonal network. The hexagon is, among the figures that tessellate the plane, the one that encloses the largest area on the same perimeter. This is very convenient, since bees consume energy to make wax!