New Zealand scientists should promote honey production efficiency in 3D printed honeycomb

To some extent, a bee is a 3D printer that moves. Although we prefer the honey it produces, most bees are very good at using 3D printed honeycomb structures extruded from their bodies, resulting in biodegradable, perfect and recyclable results. But for bees, these are a form of honey that they produce and store. To this end, a group of scientists from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, came up with an interesting way to optimize their production: the 3D printed honeycomb gives the bees more time to make golden honey.

According to bee expert Richard Evatt, in fact, honeybee is more energetic in making honeycombs than making honey. “Bees usually spend a lot of energy to build a hive,” Evatt explained. Honey is their main source of food. In other words, the bees have eaten a lot before the beekeeper takes the honey away. “They have to consume a lot of honey because bees eat six to eight servings of honey to produce a beeswax,” he added. So, although the hive is made to store honey, building these hives has consumed a significant portion of the bees' output.

This is where 3D printing can work – scientists have copied a series of copies in 3D printing based on the existing hive, allowing the bees to move in immediately. This gives the bee more time and energy to produce honey, while also allowing the beekeeper to harvest more.

The only challenge is how to make the honeycomb correctly. To this end, the research team conducted extensive research on various honeycombs. “We analyzed the sound inside the hive with a software that not only analyzes sound but also creates 3D objects at the same time,” explains Gerbrand van Melle. Obviously, 3D printers print hives much faster than bees. Ideally, a bee colony consisting of 60,000 bees would take a week to create a hive, and a 3D printer would create the same size in a single day.

But letting bees like 3D printed hives is not that easy. "The key to bees is that they have a concept called bee space." Professor Peter Dearden said "they like a certain size of space. These bees must be very precise and accurate, so it looks like 3D printing technology. Very suitable for making these things.” The next step is to use 3D printing of these bees with real beeswax. The initial results look very promising, which is a great improvement for the beekeeping industry.

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