Posts Tagged: 12 Days of Christmas
Time to Revisit 'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'

It's time to revisit the "13 Bugs of Christmas!" Back in 2010, two innovators with the UC Davis...
"On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me 5 golden bees." This is one of them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A varroa mite on a honey bee--not something that beekeepers want to see on their bees! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A queen bee and her retinue. "On the 11th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, 11 queen bees piping." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'--Revisited

Back in 2010, two innovators with the UC Davis Department of Entomology (now the UC Davis...
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," ...
The "Bugworthy" version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" includes a golden bee--actually five golden bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)