It's true. We love the hexagon shape of combs but the bees don't build them in that shape.It's the pressure of the adjacent cells that cause the round cells to become hexagon. You can test the method yourself by creating one soap bubble on your hand.
Then make many soap bubbles. You'll see that a single soap bubble is round but when there are many they become hexagon shaped.
Source book: The Buzz About Bees - Biology of a Superorganisim by Jurgen Tautz
The Buzz about Bees
This book is amazing and gives many facts about bees that I had never read about in other books and is well worth a read.
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