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Insect Statues (page 1)

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Nibbles Woodaway
Providence, RI

2001:
2010:
Nibbles Woodaway is modeled after a blue termite. The statue was installed in 1980 and refurbished in 2002. It is made of steel and fiberglass and weighs two tons. The statue is nine feet tall, 58 feet long, with 40-foot-long wings and seven-foot-long antennae. It is perched on the roof of New England Pest Control right next to I-95. In 2012, the name of the business was changed to Big Blue Bug Solutions.

The statue is dressed up for the Christmas and summer seasons. For the 4th of July, Nibbles used to be dressed as Uncle Sam with a red, white, and blue hat and beard. For summer, he is dressed with sunglasses and given an eight-foot-tall Awful Awful milkshake which he sips through a straw. For the Christmas holidays (bottom row of photos above), he is wrapped with blue bulbs and is disguised as Rudolph the Red-nose Reindeer. He wears antlers and has a flashing red nose. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]

Termites
El Centro, CA

2014:
2023:
This giant Termite is installed on the roof of IV Termite & Pest Control. Sometime after 2020, seven additional termite statues were added to the roof. [map]

Termite
Oklahoma City, OK
This giant Termite is installed on top of the sign at Acenetic Pest & Lawn Services. It has been there since at least 2007. [map]

Termite
Tucson, AZ
2008: 2012: 2018:
This giant Termite is installed above the entrance of Arizona Pest Control. It has been here since at least the 1990s. The Termite was restored around 2017. The green and white neon tubing is lit at night. For more, see this website. [map]

Termite
Lake Charles, LA
This giant Termite was installed at McKenzie Pest Control by 2014. The metal sculpture was a rust color then. It was painted around 2015. [map]

Terminix Bug [gone]
Austin, TX
This Terminix Bug, aka Willie N. Festus, was created in the 1960s. It originally revolved on top of a Terminix Pest Control sign. The sculpture has been moved a few times. It was located at Threadgills South when these photos were taken. Threadgill's closed in 2018 and everything was auctioned off. I don't know where this guy wound up. For more, see this website.

Cockroach
Akron, OH (now Youngstown, OH)		 Grasshopper
Kaleva, MI
This Cockroach in Ohio is 10 feet long and made of metal. It was created in 1996 by John Comunale. The sculpture was inspired by Providence's Termite (see above). The Cockroach was mounted on the side of TNT Exterminating's building in Akron when the first photo above was taken in 2005. When the company moved to Macedonia in 2011, the City would not allow the Cockroach to be installed there. It is now displayed in Youngstown at Graces Services, another exterminating company. The second photo was taken there in 2012. [map]

The Grasshopper, officially named "The Farmer's Nightmare", is 18 feet long and 10 feet tall. It was created from recycled metal in 2000 by local students. The sculpture commemorates St. Urho's expulsion of the grasshoppers from Finland (Kaleva was founded by Finnish settlers). There is a statue of St. Urho in Menahga, MN.

Grasshoppers in the Field
Lefor, ND
This Grasshoppers in the Field metal sculptures were created by Gary Greff who has built many other sculptures in nearby Regent, ND. This group was created in 1999. The largest grasshopper is 60 feet long. For more, see this website. [map]

More Giant Grasshoppers:
Newton, IA
Waikato, New Zealand

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