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State 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 ...
The oldest symbol is the Alabama State Bible, from 1853. [1] The most recently designated symbol is the peach, Alabama's state tree fruit, established in 2006. Alabama does not have an official nickname, although "Heart of Dixie" was strongly promoted by the Alabama Chamber of Commerce in the 1940s and 1950s, and put on state license plates. [2 ...
The monarch is the state insect of Alabama, [135] Idaho, [136] Illinois, [137] Minnesota, [138] Texas, [139] Vermont, [140] and West Virginia. [141] Legislation was introduced to make it the national insect of the United States, [ 142 ] but this failed in 1989 [ 143 ] and again in 1991.
Oklahoma was the first state to name an official reptile, the common collared lizard, in 1969. Only two states followed in the 1970s, but the ensuing decades saw nominations at a rate of almost one per year. State birds are more common, with all 50 states naming one, and they were adopted earlier, with the first one selected in 1927.
Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, [2] heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls. It is the ...
State Common name Scientific name Photo Year Alabama: Red Hills salamander: Phaeognathus hubrichti: 2000 [2] Arizona: Arizona tree frog: Hyla eximia: 1986 [3] California: California red-legged frog: Rana draytonii: 2014 [4] Colorado: Western tiger salamander: Ambystoma mavortium : 2012 [5] Georgia: American green tree frog: Hyla cinerea: 2005 ...
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Orfelia fultoni occurs in the Appalachian Mountains and Cumberland Plateau, primarily in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. [2] The larvae of the species live in stream banks among moss and rock cavities, as well as in wet sandstone caves. They build sticky webs on moss, rotten wood, in cracks between rocks ...