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So I was watching an episode of The Lost World because I’m being nostalgic and the character of the reporter, Ned said something about how Amazonian women were like Praying Mantis’s and it made me want to do more research on the Praying Mantis.

While I was looking at different Mantis’s and reading up on them, even watching youtube videos I came across the most amazing species of Mantis located online called the Orchid Mantis they actually look like flowers and they are really beautiful though deadly.

And I also discovered that the Mantis was the state insect of Connecticut. I got to wondering what Minnesota’s state insect was and I found this chart:

Alabama state butterfly:
Alabama state insect:

eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly
monarch butterfly

Alaska state insect:

four-spot skimmer dragonfly

Arizona state insect:

two-tailed swallowtail butterfly

Arkansas state insect:
Arkansas state butterfly:

honeybee
Diana Fritillary butterfly

California state insect:

california dogface butterfly

Colorado state insect:

colorado hairstreak butterfly

Connecticut state insect:

european praying mantis

Delaware state bug:
Delaware state butterfly:
Delaware macroinvertebrate:
lady bug
tiger swallowtail butterfly
stonefly
Florida state butterfly:

zebra longwing butterfly

Georgia state insect:
Georgia state butterfly:

honeybee
tiger swallowtail butterfly

Hawaii

—

Idaho state insect:

monarch butterfly

Illinois state insect:

monarch butterfly

Indiana:

—

Iowa

—

Kansas state insect:

honeybee

Kentucky state butterfly:

viceroy butterfly

Louisiana state insect:

honeybee

Maine state insect:

honeybee

Maryland state insect:

Baltimore checkerspot butterfly

Massachusetts state insect:

ladybug

Michigan

—

Minnesota state butterfly:

monarch butterfly

Mississippi state insect:
Mississippi state butterfly:

honey bee
spicebush swallowtail butterfly

Missouri state insect:

honeybee

Montana state butterfly:

mourning cloak butterfly

Nebraska state insect:

honeybee

Nevada

—

New Hampshire state insect:
New Hampshire state butterfly:

two-spotted ladybug beetle
karner blue butterfly

New Jersey state bug:

honeybee

New Mexico state insect:

tarantula hawk wasp

New York state insect:

ladybug

North Carolina state insect:

honeybee

North Dakota

—

Ohio state insect:

ladybug beetle

Oklahoma state insect:
Oklahoma state butterfly:

honeybee
black swallowtail butterfly

Oregon state insect:

Oregon swallowtail butterfly

Pennsylvania state insect:

firefly beetle

Rhode state Island

—

South Carolina state insect:
South Carolina state butterfly:
South Carolina state spider:

Carolina mantid
eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly
Carolina Wolf Spider

South Dakota state insect:

honey bee

Tennessee state insect:
Tennessee stateinsect:
Tennessee agricultural insect:
Tennessee statebutterfly:
firefly beetle
ladybug beetle
honey bee
zebra swallowtail butterfly
Texas state insect:

monarch butterfly

Utah state insect:

honeybee

Vermont state butterfly:
Vermont state insect:

monarch butterfly
honeybee

Virginia state insect:

tiger swallowtail butterfly

Washington state insect:

green darner dragonfly

W Virginia butterfly:
W Virginia insect:

monarch butterfly
honeybee

Wisconsin insect:

honeybee

Wyoming

After locating Minnesota and discovering our state insect was the Monarch Butterfly I realized that I haven’t decided what I want as a tattoo because I’ve been thinking of getting one. I was talking to my friend Byron today when he came over to hangout about his tattoos and while I was considering getting something that was special to me I wanted to recognize that even if I move out of the state and to North Carolina with Jimmy and his family this summer that I will always be a real Minnesotan girl.

So I was thinking I’d get either a heart with a butterfly in it or a tattoo of an orchid mantis on my back. The tattoo itself would be small but I like small tattoos and hearing about their significance.

I can’t decide between which one…I’ll give it time.