On the way to Canyon City we saw this:
Big freakin Hurcules Beetle ?
Hey, it’s a metal sculpture as you get off I25 and on to Route 115 on the way to Canyon City. I recognized it right away as the “largest beetle in the world” or more likely, the marker for the gravel road going to the “Museum of Tropical Insects”
It’s the J.F. May collection of arthropods but mostly insects
So this guy James May collected insects for more than 80 years and what does he get? The world’s largest private insect collection and a special museum named after him.!
Example big bug
I forgot to pack my camera for this trip so I used my phone. The museum is not well lit but it is packed with over 7,000 dead bugs and I know I would never really photograph them all. Continuing on R1oute 15 we saw on the left side of the road an attraction called “The World’s Largest Rocking Chair”. We didn’t stop.