Indian ruthless bees have appeared in the Moscow Zoo

The Moscow Zoo has new inhabitants — Indian ruthless bees have settled in the greenhouse. This was announced on February 27 on the official on the website of the mayor of the capital.

They noted that these insects have become part of the permanent exhibition. There are no such bees in any other zoo in Europe.

The ruthless bees settled in a two-story greenhouse rotunda, where the air temperature is maintained in the range from 26 to 28 degrees, and humidity is at 70-80%.

"As in a real rainforest, it rains several times a day. There are bird-wing butterflies in the garden next to the ruthless bees," said Svetlana Akulova, General Director of the Moscow Zoo.

The new residents were presented to the zoo by Ivan Zenin, Master of the Department of Entomology at Lomonosov Moscow State University, who learned how to breed them.

Indian stingless bees have long been kept in clay pots to produce delicious and healthy honey. Now the population of some Southeast Asian countries breeds such bees in special hives.

The mayor Moscow Sergei Sobyanin announced on February 12 that the Moscow Zoo took the first place in the world in terms of species diversity. He specified that there are more than 1.2 thousand species in the zoo, including the rarest animals, which are almost non-existent in nature. For example, Amur leopards or Sumatran orangutans.