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State insects are designated by 48 individual states of the fifty United States. Some states have more than one designated insect, or have multiple categories (e.g., state insect and state butterfly, etc.).
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 .
The U.S. state of Alabama is home to these known indigenous mammal species. [1] Historically, the state's indigenous species included one armadillo species, sixteen bat species, thirteen carnivore species, six insectivore species, one opossum species, four rabbit species, twenty-two rodent species, and three ungulate species.
In contrast to state reptiles, state birds have been more rapidly adopted, with the first state designating one in 1927 and the fiftieth in 1973. [78] As of January 2011, other types of animals more popular for state symbolization were mammals (46), [ 79 ] fish (45), [ 80 ] and insects (42). [ 81 ]
List of birds of Alabama; M. List of mammals of Alabama; R. List of reptiles of Alabama This page was last edited on 17 May 2022, at 01:25 (UTC). Text is available ...
A state mammal is the official mammal of a U.S. state as designated by a state's legislature. The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals. Animals with more specific designations are also listed.
This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory ... Scientific name Image Year Alabama: Camellia (state flower) Camellia japonica: 1959 (clarified 1999 ...
The northern flicker or "yellowhammer" is the state bird of Alabama. This list of birds of Alabama contains species documented in the U.S. state of Alabama, as accepted by the Bird Records Committee (BRC) of the Alabama Ornithological Society. As of January, 2022, there were 452 species on the official list. [1]