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The State insect is the Honey Bee the state insect on March 29, 1976.
The Violet Ground Beetle is an insect. The Viceroy Butterfly is found in North America. Velvet Ants are an insect.
Kentucky doesn't have a state cat, but their state animal is the gray squirrel. The state bird of Kentucky is the cardinal and the horse is the thoroughbred. The viceroy butterfly is the state butterfly, and the honey bee is the state insect.
· Viceroy Butterfly
· Viceroy Butterfly
State Animal: Gray Squirrel State Insect: Viceroy Butterfly State Horse: Thoroughbred Horse State Fish: Kentucky Bass State Bird: Cardinal http://www.stateanimals.com/states/kentucky/index.html
The viceroy butterfly and the velvet ant are insects. They begin with the letter v.
As an example of what?15 of the 41 states with a "state insect" have Apis mellifera as their state insect (not counting Tennessee which has it as the state agricultural insect, with the 7-spotted ladybug as the state insect period). It's by far the most popular choice; the second most common one is the Monarch butterfly (5 states; another 2 have it as the state butterfly but not the state insect, and Kentucky has the Viceroy butterfly, which looks almost identical to the Monarch but is a different species, as its state insect).
An insect order for a butterfly is Lepidoptera.
A butterfly
none, it's an insect.
Maryland's state insect is the checkerspot butterfly.