Overview. Selenium is an essential mineral found in small amounts in the body. It works as an antioxidant, especially when combined with vitamin E. Antioxidants like selenium help fight damaging particles in the body known as free radicals.
Carpenter bees are excellent pollinators of eggplant, tomato and other vegetables and many types of flowers. Carpenter bees have very powerful thoracic muscles when carpenter bees land on flower blossoms they become living tuning forks and can sonicate the dry pollen grains out of the flowers anthers.
Bees. 1  Bees are known for producing honey, and while that industry is certainly an essential one, itâs not the only reason why we need bees. Governments throughout the world are trying to combat a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder, first observed in North America in 2004 and which subsequently moved to Europe.