At-risk honeybees in Sweden have a new place to stay — McDonald's billboards.
Thirty percent of Sweden's wild bees are threatened by extinction, partly because they are losing habitats, according to McDonald's Sweden. Bees are dying at alarming rates across the globe, and one third of the food we eat relies on their pollination.
To create shelter for honeybees, the company has started drilling holes into some billboards and attaching honeybee houses to the reverse side of others, effectively establishing "bee hotels," reports the Good News Network.
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This is in addition to the beehives that were built on the roofs of various Swedish McDonald's, and the "McHive" — a fully-functioning beehive that looks like a McDonald's restaurant, that was created by designer Nicklas Nilsson and auctioned off earlier this year for $10,000, all of which went to charity.
Hopefully Sweden's honeybees will find themselves right at home when they see a sign with those golden arches. Watch the video on billboard hotels below. Taylor Watson
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