List of U.S. state insects

State insects are designated by 45 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.). More than half of the insects chosen are not native to North America, because of the inclusion of three European species (European honey bee, European mantis, and 7-spotted ladybug).

Table

State	State insect	Binomial nomenclature	Year
Alabama	Monarch Butterfly	Danaus plexippus	1989^[1]
Alaska	Four-Spotted Skimmer Dragonfly	Libellula quadrimaculata
Arizona	Two-Tailed Swallowtail (State Butterfly)	Papilio multicaudata
Arkansas	European honey bee (State Insect)	Apis mellifera	1973^[2]
Arkansas	Diana Fritillary Butterfly (State Butterfly)	Speyeria diana	2007^[2]
California	California Dogface Butterfly	Zerene eurydice	1972
Colorado	Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly	Hypaurotis crysalus	1996
Connecticut	European mantis	Mantis religiosa
Delaware	7-spotted ladybug (State Bug)	Coccinella septempunctata	1974^[3]
Delaware	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly)	Papilio glaucus	1999^[4]
Georgia	European honey bee (State Insect)	Apis mellifera	1975^[5]
Georgia	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly)	Papilio glaucus	1988^[6]
Florida	Zebra Longwing (State Butterfly)	Heliconius charitonius	1996^[7]
Hawaii	Kamehameha butterfly	Vanessa tameamea	2009^[8]
Idaho	Monarch Butterfly	Danaus plexippus	1992^[9]
Illinois	Monarch Butterfly	Danaus plexippus	1975^[10]
Kansas	European honey bee	Apis mellifera
Kentucky	Viceroy Butterfly	Limenitis archippus
Louisiana	European honey bee	Apis mellifera
Maine	European honey bee	Apis mellifera
Maryland	Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly	Euphydryas phaeton	1973^[11]
Massachusetts	7-spotted ladybug	Coccinella septempunctata
Minnesota	Monarch Butterfly	Danaus plexippus	2000^[12]
Mississippi	European honey bee (State Insect)	Apis mellifera	1980^[13]
Mississippi	Spicebush Swallowtail (State Butterfly)	Papilio troilus	1991^[13]
Missouri	European honey bee	Apis mellifera
Montana	Mourning Cloak Butterfly	Nymphalis antiopa
Nebraska	European honey bee	Apis mellifera
New Hampshire	7-spotted ladybug (State Insect)	Coccinella septempunctata	1977^[14]
New Hampshire	Karner Blue Butterfly (State Butterfly)	Lycaeides melissa (subspecies samuelis)	1992^[14]
New Jersey	European honey bee	Apis mellifera
New Mexico	Tarantula hawk wasp (State Insect)	Pepsis grossa	1989^[15]
New Mexico	Sandia Hairstreak Butterfly (State Butterfly)	Callophrys mcfarlandi	2003^[16]
New York	9-spotted ladybug	Coccinella novemnotata	1989^[17]
North Carolina	European honey bee (State Insect)	Apis mellifera	1973^[18]
North Carolina	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly)	Papilio glaucus	2012^[19]
North Dakota	Convergent lady beetle (State Insect)	Hippodamia convergens	2011^[20]
Ohio	7-spotted ladybug	Coccinella septempunctata	1975
Oklahoma	European honey bee (State Insect)	Apis mellifera	1992^[21]
Oklahoma	Black Swallowtail Butterfly (State Butterfly)	Papilio polyxenes	1996^[21]
Oregon	Oregon Swallowtail Butterfly	Papilio oregonius
Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania firefly (State Insect)	Photuris pennsylvanica	1974^[22]
Rhode Island	American Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus americanus	2015^[23]
South Carolina	Carolina mantis (State Insect)	Stagmomantis carolina	1988^[24]
South Carolina	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (State Butterfly)	Papilio glaucus	1994^[25]
South Dakota	European honey bee	Apis mellifera	1978^[26]
Tennessee	Common eastern firefly (State Insect)	Photinus pyralis	1975^[27]
	7-spotted ladybug (State Insect)	Coccinella septempunctata	1975^[27]
	European honey bee (State Agricultural Insect)	Apis mellifera	1990^[27]
	Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly (State Butterfly)	Eurytides marcellus	1995^[27]
Texas	Monarch Butterfly	Danaus plexippus	1995^[28]
Utah	European honey bee	Apis mellifera	1983^[29]
Vermont	European honey bee (State Insect)	Apis mellifera	1978^[30]
Vermont	Monarch Butterfly (State Butterfly)	Danaus plexippus	1987^[31]
Virginia	Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly	Papilio glaucus
Washington	Green Darner Dragonfly	Anax junius	1997^[32]
West Virginia	European honey bee (State Insect)	Apis mellifera	2002^[33]
West Virginia	Monarch Butterfly (State Butterfly)	Danaus plexippus	1995^[34]
Wisconsin	European honey bee	Apis mellifera	1977^[35]
Wyoming	Sheridan's Green Hairstreak	Callophrys sheridanii	2009^[36]

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