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Insect Statues (page 4)

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Ladybug
Lakeville, MN		 Ladybugs
Milwaukee, WI
This Ladybug is located at Hot Sam's Antiques. The statue had a different paint job in 2011. This photo is from 2012.

These Ladybugs adorn the building which houses the Ladybug Club. This nightclub opened in 2005. The ladybugs are lit up at night. For more, see this website. [map]

Spider, Ant & Dragonfly
Albuquerque, NM
These Spider, Ant & Dragonfly sculptures are located in the Children's Fantasy Garden at the ABQ Biopark Botanic Garden. The garden opened in 2001.

Dragonfly
Reno, NV
This Dragonfly is installed in Virginia Lake, a man-made lake from the 1930s. The sculpture was created by Peter Hazel and installed in 2018. For more, see this website. [map]

Monarch Butterfly and Caterpillar
Chesterfield, MO
This Monarch Butterfly and Caterpillar were both created by Bob Cassilly and are located at the Sachs Butterfly House. The Butterfly is 28 feet tall and the Caterpillar is 30 feet long. The Butterfly was installed in 1999 and the Caterpillar might have been installed at the same time. [map]

Caterpillar
Davis, CA
This Caterpillar was created by Solomon Bassoff and Domenica Mottarella. It was installed in Central Park in 2010. The eight-foot-long sculpture depicts a Monarch butterfly caterpillar wearing shoes and socks. It is made from cement over steel and wire. A naming contest was held and the statue is now known as Bellapede. For more, see this website. [map]

More Caterpillars & Butterflies:
Butterfly, Caterpillar, & Chrysalis (Winnipeg, MB)

More Dragonflies:
Malta, OH
Columbia, SC

Bookworm
Casey, IL
This Bookworm was installed in front of the downtown library around 2018. [map]

Ant
Tulare, CA		 Ants [gone]
Tulare, CA
This Ant is located in front of the Res-Com Pest Control Company. Res-Com was established in 1985. I don't know when this mascot was developed. [map]

These Ants were installed on the back of the Galaxy Theatres building which faces Highway 99. They advertised for the Res-Com Pest Control Company. They had been there since at least 2008. They were removed in 2015.

More Ants:
Leeds, AL
Burbank, CA [gone]
Grand Junction, CO
Pomfret, CT [gone]
Shawnee, KS
Cave City, KY
Faribault, MN
Wall Township, NJ [map]
Philadelphia, PA

Hercules Beetle
Colorado Springs, CO
This Hercules Beetle was built in 1958 for the May Natural History Museum. It is 17 feet long and nine feet tall and made of fiberglass and steel. The sculpture and museum moved to Weeki Wachee, FL for a few years. In the early 1960s, they returned to this site. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. [map]

More Hercules Beetles:
Miller Farms (Platteville, CO)
Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX)

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