South Windsor is working out the bugs for the plans to begin work on the site of a proposed multi-million dollar movie studio in South Windsor, literally.
The town has to make improvements to the Interstate-291 gateway zone to prepare it for the studio. The problem is that no work can be done until the town makes arrangements for the site's current inhabitants -- some pine barrens tiger beetles, the Hartford Courant reports.
"We have to move the whole circus somewhere else," the town's environmental planner, Jeffrey Folger told the Courant.
South Windsor has known about the beetle population at the site since 2007, but now that there are plans for the area, they have to figure out what to do with the insects, which are on a state list of species of "special concern." That gives them protected status.
"The population is larger than anyone realized," Folger told the Courant.
So far, the town has moved 700 larvae and 50 adults to another area of town where they can live. In all, South Windsor hopes to move 1,000 beetles before beginning work, the paper reports.
