Every day for a walk with a bumblebee: A resident rescued a wingless insect and created a special home for it.

Russian naturalist Nina launched an unusual rescue operation after nursing a bumblebee back to health with a developmental disorder. She built a special housing complex for the bee and takes it out for daily walks.

The rescue story and the experts' version

A woman named Nina accidentally found a bumblebee with only "white scraps" instead of proper wings. She initially assumed it was an old insect, as wings gradually wear away with age. However, biologists explained that the bumblebee was likely born with a developmental anomaly, and the white fragments were remnants of a cocoon.

At first, Nina simply walked with the insect, carefully moving it from flower to flower for feeding. A story from the UK helped her find a solution for its subsequent care. There, a local resident took in a wingless bumblebee, created a garden for it, and cared for it for five months.

How the unusual pet lives

Nina eventually decided to repeat the experiment. Specifically, she created a cozy home for the bee from a coconut shell and built a tunnel from coconut substrate for planting. According to observations, the rescued insect was a bumblebee queen.

I feel like she's starting to recognize me; she crawls loudly on the ground, and when I hold her, she seems to calm down and starts cleaning herself. We take her for walks every day in search of tasty plants. We 3D-printed a water bottle for her and mix a honey solution. Her favorite place is under a coconut shell. And since they live in burrows, I thought she'd like the tunnel too.

Furthermore, in the comments to the post, users actively supported the rescue of the little life. Some readers even shared their own childhood memories of caring for bumblebees.