April 21, 2011

With Act 156 of 2007, the Arkansas General Assembly designated the Diana fritillary as the official state butterfly. It is among the most spectacular of the 132 resident species of butterflies found in Arkansas. Of the fifty states, only Arkansas has chosen it as its official butterfly. It has been sighted in twenty-seven of Arkansas’s seventy-five counties.

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