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New Hampshire’s Big Bug Is For Sale

September 25, 2008

Despite its frosty winters, New England is no stranger to gargantuan insects. There’s a big bee in Vermont. A titanic termite in Rhode Island. And this past spring, artist Nathan Walker built a seven-foot-tall, 600 pound ant out of scrap iron and steel and placed it in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Although the citizens of Portsmouth embraced their metal-mandibled mascot, Nathan is obligated to take it down on September 26. He hopes to sell it, and he wants the ant to have a good home. “I live in an apartment,” he told us. “I don’t have a yard. I don’t even have closet space.”

It’s rare that any giant insect becomes available to the public, and it’s even rarer to find a big bug that doesn’t look as if it would suck you dry for breakfast. Those who are interested in the ant can contact Nathan through the ant’s web site. “Some people said I should look into selling it to an extermination company,” Nathan told us, “but I thought that went a little bit against my original idea of love between people and insects.”

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