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by dt_rsp 3246 days ago
Jürgen Tautz's "The Buzz about Bees" mentions this.

It says the bees build cylindrical cells around themselves initially, but then raise the temperature of the wax to 37-40 degrees C, when the wax is warm enough to flow into the hexagonal shapes.

(Pages 172-176)