Picture Connecticut: You're Bugging Me Man

ELLINGTON, CT —This week, we've had a swarm of dragonflies at a New England beach and naughty mosquitoes testing for a bad disease on the Connecticut River.

On one station this week, there was a re-run of the famed comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and the maniacal scene in which the wayward lifeguard Sylvester Marcus tells J. Russell Finch, his uptight edible seaweed merchant brother-in-law, "You're Bugging Me Man."

So, keeping with the insect theme, why not a big bug on a mailbox?

That is the Picture Connecticut image this week.

For many years the bug mailbox has been causing passersby to do double-takes along the 200 block of Pinney Street in Ellington near the Somers line. The metal sculpture hugs the roadway and simply cannot be missed. It's both popular and iconic in local circles.

It has undergone some refurbishments over time, but there it has been no matter what the weather is or what time of year it is.

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present.

Here are past images:
2024

• The 1976 Gremlin, Enfield
• Hole 4, Fox Hopyard Golf Club, East Haddam
• That's A Tall Uncle Sam, Vernon
• A CT Olympic Connection, Manchester
• Fireworks, behind the scenes, Vernon
• A Riverside Stroll, Hockanum River
• The 29th Connecticut Monument, New Haven
• Hangin' in the Hangar, Windsor Locks
• The Little Drummer Boy, Bridgeport
• The 14th Connecticut, Gettysburg
• A sculpture for a Famous Sculptor, West Hartford
• The Attack of the Flamingos, anywhere
• Historic Tower Turns Red, Vernon
• Eagle Rock, Hebron

• The Cirque, Hartford
• The Amerbelle Spillway, Rockville
• The ECSU Gallery, Willimantic
• Great Captain Island, Greenwich
• Bobblehead Madness, Storrs
• Bobby Sands/Hunger Strike Memorial, Hartford
• Mr. Jonathan Goes To Hartford, Hartford
• The Latest Discount Airline, New Haven
• State Groundhog Gets Arrested, Manchester
• Historic Wartime Sutures, Willington
• Big Business Week In CT, statewide
• The Marketplace at Guilford Food Center Guilford
• Main Street at night, Middletown
• The Hide-and-Seek Bear, Tolland
• The MLK Mural, Manchester
• The Mount Southington Summit, Southington

2023

• All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
• Riverside Igloos, Milford
• The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
• The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
• Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
• UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
• The Doughboy, East Hartford
• The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
• The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
• The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
• The Notch, Granby
• The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
• Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
• Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester