> Incidentally, various search engines do not find 'toth' structures.

Someday, they will handle this sort of thing better, but so far, computers don't even handle the basic problem posed by Ted Nelson back in 1974 ("Computer Lib/Dream Machines") where any child can, in context, correctly interpret a zero as an "Oh" or visa-versa, but a computer can't.

The exact name is "L. Fejes Toth", or "László Fejes Tóth", ("Laszlo Fejes Toth" with accent aigu over the "a" and both "o"s, just in case it gets scrambled by the listserv, various email clients, or the NSA. )

Far easier to just link to his paper:
http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.bams/1183526078
or
http://tinyurl.com/lae7zjn

Fair warning, contents are pure math.  
Topologists give me headaches.

> If the wax was so warm that it deformed then surely the whole comb would collapse.

Bees work from the top down and wasps work from the center outwards, so the only "wet" or "warm" cells would be the ones at the edges, the ones being currently worked on.  The others may not be fully extruded, but they exist as "solid objects" at one depth or another.

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