Dewar’s Honeycomb Bottle
The moveable frame honey bee hive uses frames with hexagonal cell templates to encourage the bees to tightly pack their cells tightly together. The hexagonal template serves as a cue to build a cell. Artists are using this bee behavior to create “bee art” objects.
One of the most publicized was a 3D Bee “Sculpture” of a Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey bottle. As part of a marketing campaign for their Highlander Honey Scotch Whiskey, Dewar’s advertising agency sponsored the creation of a template in the shape of a whiskey bottle and used the services of beekeeper, Robin Theron to create a sculpture. The honeycomb template was formed to the shape of a whisky bottle, then enclosed in with a clear outer casing to create “bee space” next to the template. Approximately 80,000 bees finished the sculpture using wax from their wax scales.
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Jonathan Neal is a retired Associate Professor of Entomology at Purdue University and author of the textbook, Living With Insects (2010).
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