I Expect 50 Posts! What is YOUR State Insect or Butterfly?

[Zomby Woof]

Arizona's Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly.

[Cush]

1. Virginia: Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

[GOPisEvil]

2. Texas: The Monarch Butterfly

[VelmaD]

4. You beat me to it...

I was even gonna post that very same pic. :)

[GOPisEvil]

5. Even though that photo is tied to Rep. Wohlgemuth, I used it anyway.

:puke:

[roguevalley]

3. Alaska ... uh, mosquito? :)

[Zomby Woof]

8. Four Spot Skimmer Dragonfly

[Kadie]

6. OK, this is a scary one

California Dog Face Butterfly

[curse10]

7. Massachusetts state insect is the Lady Bug!

That's a good state insect!

[childslibrarian]

9. Pennsylvania

Firefly

[curse10]

14. I love fireflies! I'd never seen one till this summer!

they are so pretty!

[VelmaD]

13. Yes it is...

a very good state insect. I love ladybugs. :)

[Xithras]

10. California Dogface Butterfly

Suprisingly, it's NOT the Monarch (which is much more famous here)

The official state insect:



Looks like a big moth to me:shrug:

[Kadie]

11. Did you see my post above...

your picture looks a lot nicer than the one I found.

[Xithras]

21. Lol, no I hadn't

Yours is cuter :)

[northofdenali]

12. I know everyone expects it to be the mosquito..............

but it's one of them dudes that EAT mosquitos! The dragonfly:

[curse10]

15. dragonflies are cool

and pretty, in a really creepy way

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

16. Illinois: Monarch Butterfly - and while I'm at it...

State Insect: Monarch


State Bird: Cardinal


State Mammal: White-tail Deer


State Fish: Bluegill


State Tree: White Oak


State Grass: Big Bluestem


State Mineral: Flourite


State Fossil: Tully Monster


:P

[Systematic Chaos]

17. Got four-inch-long (or better) flying beetles?

Nevada checking in here. In Las Vegas every year from about late May until September-ish, we get these HORRID ground beetles that burrow their way up out of the soil and the worst part of all is that THEY CAN FLY!! I don't know exactly what they're called or where they came from but some people I know have said that they're probably from Japan, and others have referred to them as Goliath beetles. They are the scariest thing I've ever seen.

I witnessed a dead one getting run over by an old boat of a Cadillac in a parking lot, and most of it was still pretty well held together afterwards. I also saw one on the ground in my old neighborhood that had half its guts hanging out and I'll be damned if a few minutes later when I walked by the same place that f**ker had taken off!

I know they aren't Nevada's official state insect - probably because they'd be bad for tourism if they were - but they get my vote nonetheless.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. MD: Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas phaeton)

[SOteric]

19. Washington State: The Green Darner Dragonfly

[Paradise]

20. Pataki and Hillary, insect and butterfly, respectively :)

Sorry, couldn't resist! :spank:

New York State symbols and emblems:

Designation Symbol/Emblem Adopted

Animal Beaver (Castor canadensis) 1975
Beverage Milk 1981
Bird Bluebird (Sialia sialis) 1970
Fish Brook or Speckled Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) 1975
Flag Click... 1901
Flower Rose 1955
Fossil Sea Scorpion (Eurypterus remipes) 1984
Fruit Apple (Genus Malus) 1976
Gem Wine-Red Garnet 1969
Great Seal Click... 1882
Insect Ladybug (Coccinella novemnotata) 1989
Muffin Apple Muffin 1987
Shell Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians) 1988
Song (Unofficial) "I Love New York"
Tree Sugar Maple (Acer Saccharum Marsh) ( More ) 1956

http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/ny_symb.htm