List of U.S. state insects facts for kids
This is a list of U.S. state insects. Forty-one of the fifty United States have selected state insects.
| State | State insect | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Monarch Butterfly | Danaus plexippus |  |
1989 |
| Alaska | Four-Spotted Skimmer Dragonfly | Libellula quadrimaculata |  |
|
| Arizona | Two-Tailed Swallowtail (State Butterfly) |
Papilio multicaudata |  |
|
| Arkansas | European honey bee (State Insect) |
Apis mellifera |  |
1973 |
| Diana Fritillary Butterfly (State Butterfly) |
Speyeria diana |  |
2007 | |
| California | California Dogface Butterfly | Zerene eurydice |  |
1972 |
| Colorado | Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly | Hypaurotis crysalus |  |
|
| Connecticut | European mantis | Mantis religiosa |  |
|
| Delaware | 7-spotted ladybug (State Bug) |
Coccinella septempunctata |  |
1974 |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly) |
Papilio glaucus |  |
1999 | |
| Georgia | European honey bee (State Insect) |
Apis mellifera | |
1975 |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly) |
Papilio glaucus | |
1988 | |
| Florida | Zebra Longwing (State Butterfly) |
Heliconius charitonius |  |
1996 |
| Hawaii | Kamehameha butterfly | Vanessa tameamea |  |
2009 |
| Idaho | Monarch Butterfly | Danaus plexippus | |
1992 |
| Illinois | Monarch Butterfly | Danaus plexippus | |
1975 |
| Kansas | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
|
| Kentucky | Viceroy Butterfly | Limenitis archippus |  |
|
| Louisiana | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
|
| Maine | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
|
| Maryland | Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly | Euphydryas phaeton |  |
1973 |
| Massachusetts | 7-spotted ladybug | Coccinella septempunctata | |
|
| Minnesota | Monarch Butterfly | Danaus plexippus | |
2000 |
| Mississippi | European honey bee (State Insect) |
Apis mellifera | |
1980 |
| Spicebush Swallowtail (State Butterfly) |
Papilio troilus |  |
1991 | |
| Missouri | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
|
| Montana | Mourning Cloak Butterfly | Nymphalis antiopa |  |
|
| Nebraska | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
|
| New Hampshire | 7-spotted ladybug (State Insect) |
Coccinella septempunctata | |
1977 |
| Karner Blue Butterfly (State Butterfly) |
Lycaeides melissa (subspecies samuelis) |
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1992 | |
| New Jersey | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
|
| New Mexico | Tarantula hawk wasp (State Insect) |
Pepsis formosa |  |
1989 |
| Sandia Hairstreak Butterfly (State Butterfly) |
Callophrys mcfarlandi |  |
2003 | |
| New York | 9-spotted ladybug | Coccinella novemnotata | 1989 | |
| North Carolina | European honey bee (State Insect) |
Apis mellifera | |
1973 |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly) |
Papilio glaucus | |
2012 | |
| Ohio | 7-spotted ladybug | Coccinella septempunctata | |
|
| Oklahoma | European honey bee (State Insect) |
Apis mellifera | |
1992 |
| Black Swallowtail Butterfly (State Butterfly) |
Papilio polyxenes |  |
1996 | |
| Oregon | Oregon Swallowtail Butterfly | Papilio oregonius |  |
|
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania firefly (State Insect) |
Photuris pennsylvanica |  |
1974 |
| South Carolina | Carolina mantis (State Insect) |
Stagmomantis carolina |  |
1988 |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly) |
Papilio glaucus | |
1994 | |
| South Dakota | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
|
| Tennessee | Common eastern firefly (State Insect) |
Photinus pyralis |  |
1975 |
| 7-spotted ladybug (State Insect) |
Coccinella septempunctata | |
1975 | |
| European honey bee (State Agricultural Insect) |
Apis mellifera | |
1990 | |
| Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly (State Butterfly) |
Eurytides marcellus |  |
1995 | |
| Texas | Monarch Butterfly | Danaus plexippus | |
1995 |
| Utah | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
1983 |
| Vermont | European honey bee (State Insect) |
Apis mellifera | |
1978 |
| Monarch Butterfly (State Butterfly) |
Danaus plexippus | |
1987 | |
| Virginia | Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly | Papilio glaucus | |
|
| Washington | Green Darner Dragonfly | Anax junius |  |
1997 |
| West Virginia | European honey bee (State Insect) |
Apis mellifera | |
2002 |
| Monarch Butterfly (State Butterfly) |
Danaus plexippus | |
1995 | |
| Wisconsin | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | |
1977 |
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