Greetings! This has to take the cake as the most implausible hypothesis of the new millenium. We are expected to believe that a bee goes down into a cell and "notices" that it does not properly correspond with the cell on the opposite comb. That would presuppose that the bee knew the orientation of the cell on the opposite comb. Suppose she doesn't. She goes down into to cell, lets say to nurse a larva. Checks the orientation, goes to the cell opposite, checks it, memorizes its orientation, goes back to the other, compares the two, and decides if it's right or not. If not, the whole hive breaks down. It's a wonder the poor things can function at all! Get serious. I doubt that our poor bee could ever get back to the same exact cell if she wanted to! They're not marked, you know -- and it's pitch black in there!! But there is no reason to suppose that this bee even cares about the angle of the vertices in the bottom of the cell! There is no evidence that she has the ability to sense such a distinction. If you have a hypothesis you have to spend a little time backing it up! Von Frisch spent years determining which colors bees can see and which they can not. He determined their sensitivity to sugar concentration. An experiment could be designed to test whether a bee could differentiate the orientation of comb. The honey bee is one of the most adaptable creatures on the planet. They will put honey into little plastic rings, if you want! They will work normally behind glass, with bright lights shining on them. None of this seems to stop them from doing what they have done for eons. And we are to believe that if the angles in the bottom of the cell are wrong, it's some sort of catastrophe? pb