It is used as ointments for healing animal cuts and wounds. Doctors have experimented with an alcohol tincture for hearing defects. If propolis is mixed with mineral spirits, it can be used as a natural varnish. Famous violinists used propolis in their violin varnish. Since many of our pollinators are now scarce, we are dependent on the honey bee to pollinate our crops.
Pollination starts when a field bee crawls around a plant blossom.
The honey bee is dusted with pollen. Then the field bee flies over to another blossom with the pollen in its hair. When the bee lands, the pollen falls onto this blossom s stigma. Now a fruit, vegetable or other crop can grow. Farmers actually rented colonies of bees to pollinate their crops.