Buglife, has teamed up with the children of St Augustine’s Junior School, Peterborough, to record a new version of a traditional Christmas song – ‘The Twelve Bugs of Christmas’. The recording, kindly sponsored by Norwich and Peterborough Building Society, celebrates the huge variety of amazing bugs, or invertebrates, which live around us. Buglife, and the children, hope to spread the word that without bugs, much of our festive fare would not exist.
Through pollination, bugs help ensure that we have a wide variety of traditional Christmas foods, including brazil nuts, almonds and figs. Bugs help to provide us with fresh coffee on Christmas morning, cranberries and of course, chocolate! Bugs are also a vital source of food for many other animals and birds. Our most popular British bird, the Robin - a symbol of Christmas itself - wouldn't survive without grubs and caterpillars to feed to its young.
Play the Twelve Bugs Video
It's all too easy to take bugs for granted or even to persecute them! In fact bugs are vital to us and there would be almost no life on earth without them. This is the Christmas message we'd like people to think about this year, in between the mince pies and the repeats on TV!
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If you wish to download the Twelve Bugs lyrics, click here
Many thanks to St Augustine's C of E Junior School, Peterborough, and Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
| The Twelve Bugs of Christmas was featured on ITV's Anglia News on 12 December. To see the clip, click here |
