Designated State Insect
See also: List of U.S. state insects- Arkansas (1973)
- North Carolina (1973)
- New Jersey (1974) – state bug
- Georgia (1975)
- Maine (1975)
- Nebraska (1975)
- Kansas (1976)
- Louisiana (1977)
- Vermont (1977)
- Wisconsin (1977)
- South Dakota (1978)
- Mississippi (1980)
- Utah (1983)
- Missouri (1985)
- Tennessee (1990) – official agricultural insect
- Oklahoma (1992)
- West Virginia (2002)
Read more about this topic: Western Honey Bee
Famous quotes containing the words designated, state and/or insect:
“The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner’s claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, ‘A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!’”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)