Bee hotels are all the buzz. Here are five in the West where you can meet these pollinators By J. Keith van Straaten Oct. 30, 2017 6 AM PT ...

They installed the hotel and bees speedily began to nest inside. The Beehive Hotel has enough room for a whole mason bee colony, whose members can pollinate as much as 2,000 flowers every day.

In recent years, global hotels have joined the urban bee-keeping trend too, bringing their own honey direct to their tables.

Barger initiated the Bee Hotel effort as her State Regent’s project to help save the planet. “We are in the middle of an insect apocalypse,” she explained.