Nearly every state has a state insect or butterfly, with only two states not having one: Iowa and Michigan, as well as the District of Columbia. The first state to adopt a state insect was California.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology will showcase and celebrate the state insect, the California dogface butterfly, at its open house from 1 to 4 p.m. July 16.

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There are 44 such state symbols set by state law, he said in an email, and “several other presumably edible state symbols, like the state insect, but I wouldn’t recommend it” as food.