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LinkedInPosts Tagged: 12 Days of Christmas
'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'--Revisited
Back in 2010, two innovators with the UC Davis Department of Entomology (now the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology) decided that "The 12 Days of Christmas" ought to be replaced with insects. Remember that iconic song, "The 12 Days of Christmas?" Published in 1780, it begins with "On...
Five gold rings? How about five golden bees? "On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: 5 golden bees, 4 calling cicadas, 3 French flies, 2 tortoise beetles and a psyllid in a pear tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Bugworthy Kind of Christmas
It's a bugworthy kind of Christmas. Remember the iconic song, "The 12 Days of Christmas," which begins with "On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree?" Eleven more gifts follow: 2 turtle doves, 3 French hens, 4 calling birds, 5 gold rings, 6...
The "Bugworthy" version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" includes a golden bee--actually five golden bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
