Monuments honouring insects are not particularly common, but the American city of Enterprise, in the southern state of Alabama, boasts a similar sight. It has what the city's website describes as "the world's only monument to an agricultural pest" - the boll weevil. The statue of a woman holding a giant beetle aloft was erected in 1919 "in profound appreciation" of the havoc wrought by the boll weevil on the area's cotton fields. Abandoning cotton production, farmers turned to other crops and the town promptly prospered.