Official Alabama Insect
Monarch Butterfly
Photograph from: Alabama Conservation Magazine
The Monarch Butterfly is a native butterfly that is well known in Alabama. In
1989 the legislature made the Monarch Butterfly the state insect. The Eastern
Tiger Swallowtail was named the official butterfly of Alabama a few days
before the monarch became the state insect. The legislation noted that the
Alabama Garden Clubs named April 16th as the official Save the Butterfly Day.
It also recognized the annual migration of the monarch and the need to
protect the environment.
Click here for a picture of the state insect that you can color.For more information see:
http://www.statehousegirls.net/al/symbols/insect/
http://www.monarchwatch.org/
Sources:
Act 89-935, Acts of Alabama, May 19, 1989
Alabama Conservation Magazine, Spring, 1995
Return to Kids' Emblems pageUpdated: March 27, 2007
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/kids_emblems/st_insect.html
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