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SUBMITTER: Krishna S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9334299 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krishna Shivani S Gopinath Apoorva A Bhattacharjee Somendra M SM
Scientific reports 20220728 1
Social insects have evolved a variety of architectural formations. Bees and wasps are well known for their ability to achieve compact structures by building hexagonal cells. Polistes wattii, an open nesting paper wasp species, builds planar hexagonal structures. Here, using the pair correlation function approach, we show that their nests exhibit short-range hexagonal order (no long-range order) akin to amorphous materials. Hexagonal orientational order was well preserved globally. We also show t ...[more]