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Rhode Island: American burying beetle: Nicrophorus americanus: 2015 [50] South Carolina: Carolina mantis (state insect) Stagmomantis carolina: 1988 [51] Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly) Papilio glaucus: 1994 [52] South Dakota: European honey bee: Apis mellifera: 1978 [53] Tennessee: Common eastern firefly (state insect) Photinus ...
The statue in 2008. The Big Blue Bug, also known as Nibbles Woodaway, is the giant termite mascot of Big Blue Bug Solutions located along I-95 in Providence, Rhode Island.It is claimed to be the world's largest artificial bug [1] at 928 times the size (by length) of an actual termite, standing 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and 58 feet (18 m) long and weighing 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg).
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]
The Carolina Mantid (Stagmomantis carolina) is relatively small for the mantid species, growing to about 2-2.5 inches long. They are the most common type of mantid in the U.S., despite its name.
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 ]
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The origin of the word "dobsonfly" is unclear. John Henry Comstock used the term in reference to these insects in his 1897 book Insect Life, [1] but did not explain it. He also mentioned that anglers used the word "hellgrammite" for the aquatic larvae they used as bait, but the origin of this term is also unknown.
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