The official state bird of Alaska is the Willow Ptarmigan, adopted in 1955. and it is soooooo AWESOME
The state bird of Alaska is the Willow Ptarmigan.
The official state insect of Alaska is the Four-Spot Skimmer Dragonfly (Libellula quadrimaculata). It was designated as such in 1995.
The Four-Spot Skimmer Dragonfly beat out 3 other insects in a vote by schoolchildren in Alaska. The runners-up were Unmarked slender mosquito, the Bumblebee, and the Mourning cloak butterfly.
The GI's would vote for the mosquito!
It is the bird most frequently seen around Alaska during all year round
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The willow ptarmigan.
The four-spot skimmer dragonfly is the official state insect of Alaska .
Alaska actually has no state butterflies, but it has a state insect.
the Four-spot skimmer dragonfly, it was adopted by the Alaska Legislature in 1995
Because it would be silly to call it the "state insect"!
The Official Land Mammal of Alaska is the Moose. The Official Marine Mammal of Alaska is the Bowhead Whale. The Official Fish of Alaska is the King Salmon. The Official Bird of Alaska is the Willow Ptarmigan. The Official Insect of Alaska is the Four-spot skimmer dragonfly.
Alaska's national animal is the moose! Some additional facts I found...just for fun. It's state marine mammal is the Bowhead Whale; state bird is the Willow Ptarmigan; state insect is the Four Spots Skimmer Dragonfly; and its state fish is the King Salmon.
There is a petition to vote for the monarch as the state insect but Michigan currently does not have a state insect.
it does not have a state insect
The State insect is the Honey Bee the state insect on March 29, 1976.
Alaska is a state.
Alaska has the Moose and the Bowhead Whale as Official Mammals, the Willow Ptarmigan as the Official Bird, the Four-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly as the Official Insect and the King Salmon as the Official State Fish.
Mississippi's state insect is a Honeybee.