Glasgow City Council has told people not to be alarmed by the 120,000 bees currently 'invading' the City Chambers.
The council has installed two insulated beehives on the building's roof as part of its plans for Green Year 2015. The initiative will provide a new home for the bees, which are under threat from disease, increased use of pesticides, lack of foraging and climate change.
Council staff have already volunteered to look after the bees and are now being trained in hive management.
Cllr Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow City Council and chair of Sustainable Glasgow, said: 'Bees are exceptionally important to the food chain. They pollinate a third of the food we eat and also pollinate trees which help reduce air pollution by taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.
'Sadly their numbers have dropped dramatically in recent years so Sustainable Glasgow is doing its bit to help reverse that decline by installing these two hives.'
The council has yet to decide how the honey will be used.
