Hotel for Bees!

Guests are swarming to a new hotel in London - but it isn't two-legged visitors that are being attracted to the colourful accommodation in St James's Park.
Instead, the capital's first 'Bee & Bee' at St Ermin's Hotel aims to attract visiting pollinators.
The new 'bee hotel' on the hotel's third floor terrace was designed by beekeeper Camilla Goddard and is made up of hexagon 'suites' painted in the hotel's purple livery.
It features bamboo nesting areas and 'condominiums' for solitary bees such as the leaf cutter bee, along with 'bijou boxes' for social bees such as the tree bumble bee.
The terrace is dotted with wildflowers and bee-friendly plants and is already home to four hives, which house a thriving resident colony of 3,00,000 Buckfast honey bees.
The 'bee hotel' also provides accommodation for a variety of other insects such as rolled cardboard swirls for lacewings and crevice stacks for ladybirds, earwigs, woodlice and spiders.
And the bees get to see the sights of London on their stay: they fly over a three-mile radius, visiting tourists attractions such as Buckingham Palace, St James's Park and flower boxes in Mayfair, to gather nectar from 53 types of plants, flowers and trees including sweet chestnut, blackberry and horse chestnut.
Meanwhile, the hotel's human guests can watch the bees at work through glass walls on the third floor walkway corridor.
And those who want to learn more about the insects can sign up for a beekeeping workshop.
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