[CobaltBlue]

The last one is drawn comb. I keep bees. It looks like it was drawn on foundation, on a Langenstroth type frame.

But all that aside, the bees did it, using wax which they excreted from their wax glands, which they formed from honey and pollen they ingested.

Bees certainly have a form of intelligence, but my own perception is that they don't have higher consciousness.

They are able to adapt to changes in their environment in ways which I find quite extraordinary.

Does the queen bee educate the worker bees in bee knowledge, who in turn educate the baby bees, or is it instinctive?

Both. Some of it they are born with, some of it they learn from each other.

[general_re]

It looks like it was drawn on foundation, on a Langenstroth type frame.

What a coincidence - that's exactly what I was going to say. Errr, yeah ;)

So, given that you seem to know a heck of a lot more than I do about the lifestyles of bees, would you say that an emergent structure like a beehive fits what we commonly think of when we say something is "designed"?