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State insect Binomial name Image Year Alabama: Monarch butterfly (state insect) Danaus plexippus: 1989 [1] Queen Honey bee (state agricultural insect) Apis mellifera: 2005 [2] Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly and mascot) Papilio glaucus: 1989 [3] Alaska: Four-spotted skimmer dragonfly: Libellula quadrimaculata: 1995 [4] Arizona: Two ...
The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect. [1]This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
During the Greek Archaic Era, the grasshopper was the symbol of the polis of Athens, [70] possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of Attica. [70] Native Athenians for a while wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolise that they were of pure Athenian lineage with no foreign ancestors. [70]
Cicadas are insects found in North America, consisting of more than 3,000 species. They're between an inch and two inches long, with small bristle-like antennae and four clear wings, and some of ...
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The common English name ladybird originated in Britain where the insects became known as "Our Lady's birds". [6] [7] Mary ("Our Lady") was often depicted wearing a red cloak in early art, and the seven spots of the species Coccinella septempunctata (the most common in Europe) were said to represent her seven joys and seven sorrows. [8]
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The Polyphaga appear to date from the Triassic. Most extant beetle families appear to have arisen in the Cretaceous. [60] The cladogram is based on McKenna (2015). [60] The number of species in each group (mainly superfamilies) is shown in parentheses, and boldface if over 10,000. [61] English common names are given where possible.