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.
However, only certain bees within a hive or colony are capable of stinging. Even though they are capable of it, most bees do not sting unless provoked. The female bees of both social and solitary species are able to sting when threatened. Male bees do not have stingers. Bumble bees, Bombus spp., are ground-nesting bees and have smaller hives than honey bees.