The star of this week’s episode is a 58 foot long, 9 foot tall, 4,000 pound termite named Nibbles Woodaway. But you might know him better as the Big Blue Bug.
Episode Source Material:
- Big Blue Bug
- Get To Know Us | The Big Blue Bug Of RI, MA & CT
- World's Largest Bug, Providence, Rhode Island
- Creator of RI's Big Blue Bug dies
- The Big Blue Bug in Providence is broken. What might happen next
- Big Blue Bug gets lit for 29th year
- Nibbles Woodaway and Lou Ferrigno join forces to benefit the RI Chapter of the ALS Association
- Nibbles Woodaway
- https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2017/06/20/graffiti-suspect-turns-himself-in-ordered-to-have-no-contact-with-big-blue-bug/20487696007/
- About Big Blue Bug Solutions | Pest Control In RI, MA And CT
- Big Blue Bug Solutions
- https://newspaperarchive.com/cedar-rapids-gazette-may-27-2001-p-45/
- https://newspaperarchive.com/nashua-telegraph-may-26-2001-p-11/
- https://newspaperarchive.com/independence-examiner-aug-05-1989-p-27/
- Reticulitermes flavipes
- Termite
- “World's biggest” roadside attractions: a history of “world's largest” tourist traps.
- Roadside Attractions Lesson Plan from the National Register of Historic Places
- Lucy the Elephant
- An Introduction to Eusociality | Learn Science at Scitable
- Roadside attraction
- 10 of the Biggest Bugs in the World
- Rhode Island Looks Up To a Two-Ton Termite