Hiking can always be a fun activity, walking through the woods, getting from point A to point B; it's always a rigorous activity. During such activity, one doesn't really know what sort of things they are probably going to discover and encounter. For all one knows, you'll encounter the biggest honeycomb ever recorder. But that sound unlikely doesn't it? Well, not really, not for this man who was just walking through the woods, minding his own business when he saw the biggest honeycomb in his entire life.
A man in China discovered the said honeycomb while hiking through the remote woods of Hunan province of China. The gigantic honeycomb weighed over 78 kilos and boasted a height that measured 1.8 meters. The hiker decided to bring the mass of hexagonal cells back with him to be studied.
There were no bees found along with the honeycomb. If it was an active home to bees, then it would have housed hundreds of thousands of the little yellow animals. The characteristic hexagon cell of honeycombs are created and built by honeybees to store honey and pollen. It is oddly wonderfully shaped as hexagons due to the fact that this shape uses the least material to create a lattice of cells within a given space.
Bees are animals that closely resemble to wasps and ants. The most famous bee species is the European honey bee, it is well known for producing honey and beeswax. Honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees live socially in colonies. The ancestors of bees are actually wasps, which are predators of insects. There are still numerous questions as to how the switch from insect prey to pollen, an explanation from researchers says that the consumption of prey insects that feed on flowers might have been covered with pollen and fed to wasp larvae.
