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)
“To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)