Propolis

bees, honey and other sticky subjects

Sunday, July 11, 2004

State minibeasts

I still don't know what happened to the attempt to make the queen honeybee the state insect of Alabama, but I notice that the honeybee is designated as the state insect of 14 states in the USA:

Arkansas
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Mississippi (together with the spicebush swallowtail butterfly)
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
North Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee (together with the firefly beetle, ladybug beetle, and the zebra swallowtail butterfly — clearly an indecisive state!)
Utah
Vermont (with the monarch butterfly)
Wisconsin

Various butterflies and beetles make up the bulk of the rest. Any offers for mosquitoes, ants, wasps (yellow jackets), hornets or fleas?

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