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Find information on the official State Insects and Butterflies of each of the states that have adopted one.
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US Official State ButterfliesOfficial State Butterflies (Insect Order Lepidoptera).Butterflies belong to the insect order Lepidoptera. The word "Lepidoptera" is derived from a Greek word meaning "scale wing." The butterfly wing scales create the wonderful colors and patterns observed in butterfly wings. There are 165,000 species of Lepidoptera worldwide, but of those, only about 24,000 are butterflies! Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches. Most adult butterflies only live one or two weeks. Adult butterflies use flower nectar as a food source. To obtain nectar, a butterfly's mouth (proboscis) is a long tube it keeps rolled up until ready for use, and is then used as a straw. Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow. Find images, descriptions, taxonomic hierarchy, and a history of the state butterflies representing the state insect or butterfly symbols for each of the 50 states. Lists their basic characteristics, including adoption date, picture, state code, description, characteristics, range and habitat, habits, life cycle, status, and taxonomic hierarchy. Official State Butterflies of the 50 States
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State Insects
Many states have selected insects as one of their state
symbols, however nine states (out of 50) have no official state insect as of 2008 .
in·sect (in′sekt′) noun 1. any of a large class (Insecta) of small arthropod animals characterized, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs on the thorax, and, usually, two pairs of membranous wings, including beetles, bees, flies, wasps, and mosquitoes 2. popularly any small arthropod, usually wingless, including spiders, centipedes, pill bugs, and mites but·ter·fly (-flī′) noun pl. -·flies′ 1. any of various families of lepidopteran insects active in the daytime, having a sucking mouthpart, slender body, ropelike, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually brightly colored, membranous wings |
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