Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-5886959-20130731002212/@comment-7697305-20130731005414

The Statues drop-down is a template page &#8212; it would need to be edited there to have any effect.

Anyway, are you on the console or the PC? I just tested the Hornet Statue as a mechanism in one of my worlds on PC with no effect, a result which is corroborated by the other Terraria wiki.