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.
I am a beekeeper so naturally I use my own beeswax in my soap, lotion and other bath and beauty products. Keeping bees is the best way to pollinate my garden, orchard and all plants. That would be reason enough to keep them but they also make honey and beeswax. They are an amazing little colony. They are a female based society that has a Queen and worker Females.