Bees don't make the only honeycombs in trees. Honeycombing is a term used by foresters to describe a tree's lengthwise separation of wood fibers, according to Georgia-Pacific Corp., one of the world's largest forest products companies.

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The separations, commonly found along the strips of cells in a tree and often not visible at the surface, store and transport food.

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