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Why there’s a 9-foot bronze wasp outside Oregon’s newest state building
Why there’s a 9-foot bronze wasp outside Oregon’s newest state building
Why there’s a 9-foot bronze wasp outside Oregon’s newest state building

Published on: 11/17/2024

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A sculpture by artist Pete Beeman depicts a Megarhyssa “stump stabber” wasp atop a microscope, symbolizing the entomology labs at the North Valley Complex facility.A Megarhyssa wasp in the Oregon Department of Agriculture's insect museum, used to indentify insects.The North Valley Complex building in Wilsonville houses several state agencies.Artists Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis of Crash Studio in Milwaukie constructed three pieces of fused glass and steel, each paying homage to beehives, plant structures and molecular architecture.Standing at the building’s front entrance, a stone sculpture by Washington artist Sue Taves features leaves with a carousel of small insects etched into its base.A sculpture by artist Pete Beeman depicts a Megarhyssa “stump stabber” wasp atop a microscope, symbolizing the entomology labs at the North Valley Complex facility.A sculpture by artist Pete Beeman depicts a Megarhyssa “stump stabber” wasp atop a microscope, symbolizing the entomology labs at the North Valley Complex facility.A sculpture by artist Pete Beeman depicts a Megarhyssa “stump stabber” wasp atop a microscope, symbolizing the entomology labs at the North Valley Complex facility.The Oregon Department of Agriculture's insect museum, used to indentify insects.Photos from the Department of Agriculture's electron microscope show a close-up of a weevil.The claw of a pseudoscorpion taken by an electronic microscope at the entomology lab at the Oregon Department of Agriculture.Megarhyssa wasps in the Oregon Department of Agriculture's insect museum, used to indentify insects.

In popular culture, wasps get a bad rap as aggressive, sting-happy and not nearly as ecologically important as their bee cousins. A 9-foot statue of a wasp recently installed outside the state’s new North Valley Complex building in Wilsonville hopes to change that.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2024/11/why-theres-a-9-foot-bronze-wasp-outside-oregons-newest-state-building.html

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