TED-Ed: Can you solve the honeybee riddle? | Dan Finkel

The video tutorial focuses on preventing the extinction of the honeybee species by creating sustainable beehives. It explains how to fill hexes with bees and wax, and the importance of creating multiple viable hives. The tutorial covers strategies for optimizing bee placement to achieve a chain reaction that transforms the entire hive efficiently. It also discusses the significance of perimeter calculations in the transformation process, ultimately aiming to create six productive hives with the available 60 bees.

What are the two ways to fill a hex with wax in the beehive?

Describe the process of creating a Queen bee in the hive. What steps are involved?

What is the significance of having three or more transformed neighboring hexes in the hive?

What happens to a bee once it transforms a hex?

How many bees are needed to transform the entire hive according to the calculations provided?