Hilary Berseth makes some amazing honeycomb art with the help of thousands of bees. New York Magazineexplains how it is done.

But Berseth's breakthrough came from an earlier hive, where the bees built him a remarkable spiral. "I was really happy with that one when I got it open. That was when I realized, Wow, you can sort of break the behavior"-that is, manipulate the bees' instincts about proportion and form. "You can plan out a certain amount of what's going to happen, and then that design will sort of ripple through, and then they'll begin to draw out combs and riff off that design."

Hilary admits to sometimes being stung by the bees. You can see more of Hilary Berseth's bee art here. (via Neatorama)

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