[jwparkerjr]

re: The only statue in the world honoring an insect

Actually I think it's the only statue anywhere honoring a pest, not just the boll weevil! As I recall they wanted to honor George Washington Carver for what he did to change the area's dependence from cotton to the peanut but couldn't bring themselves to erect a statue to honor a black man. So they chose the weevil that destroyed the cotton crop and forced them to turn to peanuts.

Not sure how true that story is, but I remember hearing it when I lived there in the 1960's.

[Crawdad]

http://www.geocities.com/skibbie61/weevil.html

History of the Boll Weevil Monument.