State insects are designated by, 48 individual states of the: fifty United States. Some states have more than one designated insect. Or have multiple categories (e.g., state insect. And state butterfly, "etc."). Iowa and Michigan are the——two states without a designated state insect.
More than half of the insects chosen are not native——to North America, because of the inclusion of three European species (European honey bee, European mantis, and 7-spotted ladybird), each having been chosen by multiple states.
Table※
State | State insect | Binomial name |
Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Monarch butterfly (state insect) |
Danaus plexippus | 1989 | |
Queen Honey bee (state agricultural insect) |
Apis mellifera | 2005 | ||
Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly and mascot) |
Papilio glaucus | 1989 | ||
Alaska | Four-spotted skimmer dragonfly | Libellula quadrimaculata | 1995 | |
Arizona | Two-tailed swallowtail (state butterfly) |
Papilio multicaudata | 2001 | |
Arkansas | European honey bee (state insect) |
Apis mellifera | 1973 | |
Diana fritillary butterfly (state butterfly) |
Speyeria diana | 2007 | ||
California | California dogface butterfly
(state butterfly) |
Zerene eurydice | 1972 | |
Colorado | Colorado hairstreak | Hypaurotis crysalus | 1996 | |
Connecticut | European mantis | Mantis religiosa | 1977 | |
Delaware | 7-spotted ladybug (state bug) |
Coccinella septempunctata | 1974 | |
Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly) |
Papilio glaucus | 1999 | ||
Stonefly (state macroinvertebrate) |
Order Plecoptera | 2005 | ||
Florida | Zebra longwing (state butterfly) |
Heliconius charitonius | 1996 | |
Georgia | European honey bee (state insect) |
Apis mellifera | 1975 | |
Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly) |
Papilio glaucus | 1988 | ||
Hawaii | Kamehameha butterfly | Vanessa tameamea | 2009 | |
Idaho | Monarch butterfly | Danaus plexippus | 1992 | |
Illinois | Monarch butterfly | Danaus plexippus | 1975 | |
Indiana | Say's firefly | Pyractomena angulata | 2018 | |
Kansas | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | 1976 | |
Kentucky | European honey bee (state agricultural insect) |
Apis mellifera | 2010 | |
Viceroy butterfly (state butterfly) |
Limenitis archippus | 1990 | ||
Louisiana | European honey bee (state insect) | Apis mellifera | 1977 | |
Gulf fritillary (state butterfly) | Dione vanillae | 2022 | ||
Maine | European honey bee (state insect) | Apis mellifera | 1975 | |
Pink-edged Sulphur (state butterfly) | Colias interior | 2023 | ||
Maryland | Baltimore checkerspot butterfly | Euphydryas phaeton | 1973 | |
Massachusetts | Ladybug | Family Coccinellidae | 1974 | |
Minnesota | Monarch butterfly (state butterfly) |
Danaus plexippus | 2000 | |
Rusty patched bumblebee (state bee) |
Bombus affinis | 2019 | ||
Mississippi | European honey bee (state insect) |
Apis mellifera | 1980 | |
Spicebush swallowtail (state butterfly) |
Papilio troilus | 1991 | ||
Missouri | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | 1985 | |
Montana | Mourning cloak butterfly (state butterfly) |
Nymphalis antiopa | 2001 | |
Nebraska | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | 1975 | |
Nevada | Vivid dancer damselfly | Argia vivida | 2009 | |
New Hampshire | 7-spotted ladybug (state insect) |
Coccinella septempunctata | 1977 | |
Karner blue butterfly (state butterfly) |
Plebejus melissa samuelis | 1992 | ||
New Jersey | European honey bee (state bug) |
Apis mellifera | 1974 | |
Black swallowtail (state butterfly) |
Papilio polyxenes | 2014 | ||
New Mexico | Tarantula hawk wasp (state insect) |
Pepsis grossa | 1989 | |
Sandia hairstreak (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 | ||
North Dakota | Convergent lady beetle | Hippodamia convergens | 2011 | |
Ohio | Ladybug | Family Coccinellidae | 1975 | |
Oklahoma | European honey bee (state insect) |
Apis mellifera | 1992 | |
Black swallowtail (state butterfly) |
Papilio polyxenes | 1996 | ||
Oregon | Oregon swallowtail | Papilio oregonius | 1979 | |
Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania firefly | Photuris pennsylvanica | 1974 | |
Rhode Island | American burying beetle | Nicrophorus americanus | 2015 | |
South Carolina | Carolina mantis (state insect) |
Stagmomantis carolina | 1988 | |
Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly) |
Papilio glaucus | 1994 | ||
South Dakota | European honey bee | Apis mellifera | 1978 | |
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 (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 | Eastern tiger swallowtail | 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 | |
Wyoming | Sheridan's green hairstreak | Callophrys sheridanii | 2009 |
See also※
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