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	NYS DOS, Kids' Room, Facts About NY with pictures
		It was adopted as the State beverage in 1981.
		The ladybug was adopted as the State insect in 1989.
		The bluebird was adopted as the State bird in 1970.
	www.dos.state.ny.us /kidsroom/nysfacts/stfacts.html (471 words)

	New Hampshire Almanac
		The 1977 Legislature voted the ladybug as New Hampshire's official state insect, in a history-making manner.
		With such an important consideration as the adoption of a state insect, the committee felt it appropriate to recommend the appointment of a "State Insect Selection Board," so as to broaden the scope of the search for a state insect by hearing from other groups, who may champion other beneficial insects.
		As the ladybug became New Hampshire's official state insect; research disclosed that Massachusetts, Ohio, and Tennessee had already adopted the ladybug as their state insects.
	www.state.nh.us /nhinfo/animal.html (1156 words)

	Office of the Governor; Kids' Pages
		The seal repeats the name of the state, the date of its admission to the Union (1889), and the state motto, "Under God the people rule." A farmer is shown in the foreground plowing his fields.
		In recognition of its importance to the state's farm economy, the C(Apis Mellifera L.) was adopted as the state insect in 1978.
		The state gemstone is the Fairburn agate, a semiprecious stone first discovered near Fairburn, S.D. The stone is found primarily in an area extending from Orella, Neb., to Farmingdale, S.D. It is used in jewelry and is a favorite of rock collectors.
	www.state.sd.us /governor/Main/kids/SR.htm (5217 words)

	California State Library - History and Culture - State Insignia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Secretary of State began using blue and gold ribbons with the state seal on official documents as early as 1913.
		It was adopted as the State Flag by the State Legislature in 1911.
		The official State Tartan is described as a pattern or sett consisting of alternate squares of meadow green and pacific blue that are separated and surrounded by narrow charcoal bands.
	www.library.ca.gov /history/cahinsig.cfm (3984 words)

	State Insect For Indiana
		Insects constitute 80% of the world's animal species, and they are critical to the ecological balance of our earth.
		Insects are decomposers and recyclers, serve as pollinators of flowering plants and are an important food source for many animals and even some plants.
		Insects have been used in song and poetry, and their grace and beauty are miracles of nature.
	www.entm.purdue.edu /entomology/outreach/firefly (726 words)

	State Symbols and History - State Insects
		The official state insects were designated by Public Chapter 292 of the Acts of 1975.
		The life cycle is about four weeks as the ladybug larvae passes through four growth stages feeding on insects and insect eggs.
		The official state agricultural insect is the honeybee and was designated by Public Chapter 725 of the Acts of 1990.
	www.state.tn.us /sos/symbols/insects.htm (405 words)

	Louisiana Secretary of State/LOUISIANA FACTS PG. C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The large creamy-white bloom of the magnolia tree was designated the state flower in 1900 because of the abundance of trees throughout the state.
		The honeybee's greatest usefulness, however, is actually in the pollination of crops, including fruits, nuts, vegetables, and forage crops, and many uncultivated plants that prevent erosion by keeping topsoil from being carried into the ocean.
		In 1976, Louisiana adopted petrified palmwood as the official state fossil, and agate, as found in Louisiana gravel, became the the state gemstone.
	www.sec.state.la.us /around/facts/facts-C.htm (345 words)

	Capitol Classroom - Grades 9-12 (Symbols and Emblems) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The state flower and tree is the American dogwood.
		Virginia's state insect is the tiger swallowtail butterfly.
		The Mace is a ceremonial staff presented to the House of Delegates in 1700 by the Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.
	legis.state.va.us /cap_class/9-12/9_12_emb_symb.html (369 words)

	Maryland Kids Page State Symbols
		The Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) is the State reptile and official mascot of the University of Maryland College Park.
		On October 1, 2001 the Calico cat was chosen as Maryland's State Cat because of the colors.
		On October 1, 2003, the Thoroughbred Horse became the State Horse of Maryland.
	mdkidspage.org /StateSymbols.htm (873 words)

	Kids' Emblems Index
		State Amphibian ~ Red Hills Salamander The Red Hill Salamander is under federal protection, because it is near extinction.
		State Bible The official State Bible is used to inaugurate Alabama governors.
		State Wildflower ~ Oak-leaf Hydrangea The oak-leaf hydrangea is a native shrub that grows in all parts of Alabama.
	www.archives.state.al.us /kids_emblems/index.html (816 words)

	State Symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1973, a special poll of 900,000 schoolchildren changed the State Tree from the Native Oak to the White Oak.
		In 1974 a third-grader from Decatur suggested that the monarch butterfly become the state insect.
		Illinois is the largest producer of Fluorite in the United States.
	www.state.il.us /kids/learn/symbols (275 words)

	WDFW -- Fish and Wildlife Symbols of Washington State
		In 1997, the common green darner dragonfly, Anax junius Drury, became Washington's official state insect after a group of students at Crestwood Elementary School in Kent brought the idea of a state insect to the Washington State Legislature.
		The goldfinch is a delicate little bird with a yellow body and fl wings, and although it eventually became the official state bird, many other birds were considered for the title.
		The steelhead trout was adopted by the Legislature as a state symbol in 1969.
	www.wdfw.wa.gov /symbols.htm (389 words)

	State Insects, Exhibits and other Fun Facts - BugNetMAP
		It will also provide information about who was responsible in that state for starting the process and how that insect was selected to represent the state.
		For those states not having a state insect, this website may encourage the process to begin.
		For those states not having a state insect, it is hoped that the selection of a state insect would have some of the following components:
	www.umass.edu /ent/BugNetMAP/r_state.html (233 words)

	State Symbols
		In 1799, the General Assembly authorized the official Pennsylvania State Flag, a banner fringed in gold with the Coat of Arms embroidered on a field of blue.
		The State Steam Locomotive is on display in railroad museums in Altoona and Strasburg.
		The official state song of the Commonwealth was written and composed by Eddie Khoury and Ronnie Bonner and is the official song for all public purposes.
	www.legis.state.pa.us /WU01/VC/visitor_info/hello_pennsylvania/symbols.htm (1130 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: State Insects
		California was the first state of the United States to select a state insect.
		The Dogface Butterfly, Zerene eurydice, was officially adopted as the state insect of California in 1929.
		This was the result of a statewide poll of all the active entomologists in the state, responding to the Lorquin Entomological Society of Los Angeles.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmnh/buginfo/statebugs.htm (161 words)

	State Insect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1975, the honeybee was named the official state insect.
		The honeybee has a highly specialized labor force, an elaborate social structure, an astounding communications system and a well-fed population.
		It is a member of the great insect family Apoidea, which includes 20,000 species; among them bumblebees and carpenter bees.
	www.sos.state.ga.us /state_capitol/education_corner/state_insect.html (75 words)

	Bugged & bewildered: Is state's official insect really from Pennsylvania?
		The state insect, if you don't have it memorized, is the firefly, adopted by the General Assembly back in 1974.
		As defined by state borders today, the area where the original Photuris pensylvanica specimens came from could actually be Delaware, Maryland, New York or Ohio.
		He suspects that this state is home to at least nine genera and more than 40 species, some of which have been documented in neighboring states.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20031014firefly1014fnp2.asp (716 words)

	Zoo Features Exotics, But Also Understanding of Insect World 10/22/02
		Except for the house flies, all of the insects are alive, but safely guarded from the public by their glass or hard plastic containers.
		Another effort specific to the K-State Insect Zoo is a simulated kitchen with displays of such common household and yard insects as crickets, cockroaches, flour beetles, house flies and even small scorpions in the sink (which are common in such desert locales as Arizona, but "found even in parts of Kansas, including Manhattan," Charlton said).
		K-State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well-being of Kansans.
	www.oznet.ksu.edu /news/sty/2002/insect_zoo102202.htm (963 words)

	News Releases: Iowa State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Iowa State Entomology Club sponsors the festival, which is free and open to the public.
		The festival also introduces the public to a practice that is common in other parts of the world: eating insects.
		Bug displays and the Iowa State insect zoo will give attendees the opportunity for some up-close, quality time with giant millipedes, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, hornworm caterpillars and tarantulas.
	www.iastate.edu /~nscentral/releases/2003/sept/insectfilm.shtml (207 words)

	State Insect of Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The selection of the Colorado Hairstreak is perhaps the most inspired of all states.
		That Colorado even has a State Insect is due almost entirely to the efforts of Colorado 4
		The Colorado Hairstreak is a native insect found in Colorado and other areas of the Southwest (see map below).
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Entomology/state.html (289 words)

	New Mexico Symbols, Insect: Tarantula Hawk Wasp - SHG Resources
		The selection of the insect was prompted by a group of Edgewood, New Mexico elementary school children doing research on states which had adopted state insects.
		The insect was adopted by the 39th Legislature in 1989.
		Several species of the wasps known as "tarantula hawks" that build nests in the ground and provide their young with spiders for food inhabit the desert lands of the southwest.
	www.shgresources.com /nm/symbols/insect (658 words)

	Official State Symbols of North Carolina
		Both berries are grown throughout the state, and consumers can pick their own berries at farms from one end of the North Carolina to the other.
		It was one of the few states which did not have a motto and the only one of the original thirteen without one.
		The song known as "The Old North State" was adopted as the official song of the State of North Carolina by the General Assembly of 1927.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /NC/SYMBOLS/symbols.htm (3711 words)

	Insect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Monarch butterflies are found throughout the United States.
		The eggs hatch, the larva eat the leaves of the milkweed, and an adult emerges from the chrysalis, all in about 20 to 33 days.
		In 1974, a Dennis School third-grade class in Decatur proposed the orange and fl Monarch Butterfly as the State’s Official Insect.
	www.museum.state.il.us /exhibits/symbols/insect.html (202 words)

	State's insect doesn't live here
		Anointed as the official New York state insect in 1989, the nine-spotted lady beetle was believed to be extinct in the state when it was elevated to be the insect world's "New Yorker."
		Not only did the state Legislature name a no-longer-here insect, but they also haven't done anything to correct this blatant error that's now 15 years old.
		As a member of New Yorkers for the Right Insect, I sought answers from the inspector general of insects, state entomologist Tim McCabe, who also oversees the New York State museum's insect collection.
	archive.recordonline.com /archive/2004/12/04/wayne04.htm (666 words)

	The State Insect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Harmless to humans, and averaging 2-2 1/2 inches in length, this small green or brown insect feeds on aphids, flies, grasshoppers, small caterpillars and moths.
		Although probably not a significant factor in biological control, mantis are beneficial insects for farmers and are therefore symbolic reminders of the importance of the natural environment to human and biological survival.
		Reproduced from the Connecticut State Register and Manual with permission of the Secretary of the State.
	vvv.state.ct.us /emblems/insect.HTM (199 words)

	K-State's insect zoo to be dedicated
		The department of entomology created the new Insect Zoo as an opportunity to impact science and natural history education in Manhattan and the surrounding communities.
		Kansas State University is a comprehensive, research, land-grant institution first serving students and the people of Kansas, and also the nation and the world.
		The marks and names of Kansas State University are protected Trademarks and may not be used in any commercial or private endeavor without the approval of the university.
	www.mediarelations.ksu.edu /WEB/News/NewsReleases/insectzoo100302.html (567 words)

	Pa. state insect may not reside in Pennsylvania
		The species of firefly that is the state insect has not actually been documented in the commonwealth.
		Lyndsey Kistner (sophomore-hotel, restaurant and institutional management) said she does not understand the reason for having a state insect if its identity is uncertain.
		When the state insect was first picked in 1974, it was just "the firefly," but later, the species Photuris pensylvanica was chosen.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2003/10/10-24-03tdc/10-24-03dnews-02.asp (574 words)

	VERMONT STATE INSECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		124 of the Acts of 1978, effective July 1, 1978, designated the Honeybee as the official State Insect.
		This "social" insect, which grows and lives in highly organized colonies, is important to Vermont farmers and orchardists by being a principal pollinator of certain of their crops.
		Though they represent a relatively small part of the state's agricultural economy, Vermont beekeepers generally produce several hundred thousand pounds of honey each year.
	dol.state.vt.us /www_root/000000/html/emblems/insect.htm (104 words)

	Insects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This fact sheet reviews the major beneficial insects that are likely to be seen in New York orchards, concentrating on the most commonly seen life stages.
		Within each group the insects are given by their botanical name.
		-- http://www.msue.msu.edu/vanburen/japbet.htm Japanese Beetles, (Popillia japonica) the most widespread and serious turfgrass insect pest in the Northeast when it is a grub, is also a major pest as an adult, when it feeds on nearly 300 species of plants, including fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, field and forage crops and weeds.
	alexia.lis.uiuc.edu /~kawski/mastergardener/mgfqinsects.htm (4160 words)

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