LARGEST -- Killer Bee in the World - Hidalgo TX
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PeterNoG
N 26° 06.235 W 098° 15.292
14R E 574506 N 2887405
This Superlative, the Largest Killer Bee in the World, is on East Texano Drive at the entrance to Hidalgo City Hall in Hidalgo, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMKJXZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/23/2014
Views: 7
The First Colony of Africanized honey bees or Killer Bees entered the United States in Hidalgo, Texas on Oct. 15, 1990. The first attacks in May of 1991 were in Brownsville about 50 miles east. The first fatality in 1993 was in Harlingen about 35 miles east.
This infamy might have hurt Hidalgo's tourism, but within months, Mayor John Franz conceived the idea for for the largest Killer Bee statue and at a cost of $20,000 the citizens of Hidalgo had commissioned, sculpted and now proudly display the 2000 pound, full-color statue of the feared "Killer Bee!". Hidalgo was proclaimed to be Killer Bee Capitol of the World.
The gigantic 'Killer Bee' statue is anatomically correct, yellow and black Africanized honeybee with steel supported legs and translucent wings. It stands 10 feet high and the body is about 20 feet long with another 4 feet of antennae.
Type of documentation of superlative status: Sign
Location of coordinates: Right in front of the killer bee
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