Twisp, WA

Erected in 2016, "Beeest" is an eight-foot-long yellow jacket on a 15-foot-high pole in Twisp Commons Park. The sculpture was pieced together from old cars pulled out of a local river during an effort to improve salmon habitat. Local artist Barry Stromberger created the giant metal insect. Yellow jackets are significant to the Town of Twisp: the town's name is supposedly a Native American word for wasp, or it may be a sound made by the yellow jacket, or it may come from t-wasp. No one really knows.

The former Twisp High School, which now houses the Methow Valley Community Center adjacent to the park, used the yellow jacket as its mascot. And, lord knows, there are plenty of yellow jackets that live in Twisp during the summer.

Oddly, the wrong address was provided for the park; instead leading to an office with a large hornet sculpture out front. The metal scupture weighing more than 600 pounds has become a favorite nesting spot for yellow jackets.