Symbols for Tennessee: Living Symbols (Animals and Fauna) By Nora Kirkeby Mar 2, 2007, 19:29 PST

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Mockingbird photo by Ryan Hagerty From the NCTC Image LIbrary Courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Digital Library System

Tennessee State Agricultural Insect
This informative page on the honey bee can teach you about bee hierarchy, honeycomb, and how the infamous killer bees were formed.
Source: Great Plains Nature Center

Tennessee State Amphibian
This article is a very good resource on the rare Tennessee cave salamander. The language in the article is a little tricky though so you might want to keep a dictionary in hand.
Source: Outdoor Alabama

Tennessee State Bird
The beautiful full-color nature guide can teach you all about the mockingbird's habitat, range, diet, life cycle, and more. You can make the photos large just by double-clicking.
Source: New Hampshire Public Television.

Tennessee State Bird (Coloring Page)
This beautifully detailed coloring page depicts the mockingbird nestled among iris, Tennessee's state flower. Color it in for a beautiful addition to any report, or trace it as a reference for your own drawing.
Source: New Hampshire Public Television.

Bobwhite Quail

Tennessee State Butterfly
The zebra swallowtail is Tennessee's official state butterfly. You can see pictures, learn about its life cycle, and find out which counties in Tennessee play host to this beautiful insect.
Source: Montana Big Sky Institute and NBII

Tennessee State Fish (Commercial and Sport)
Tennessee has two official state fish, the commerical cat fish is the state's commerical fish, and the large mouth bass is the state's sport fish. This page has information on both. You can learn about the fish, and find the record for the largest of each fish caught within Tennessee.
Source: Wildlife Forever

Tennessee State Game Bird
The state game bird is the bob white quail. Find out when it was adopted as a state symbols and learn about it here.
Source: New Zealand Birds

Firefly Photo by David Cappaert Courtesy of www.forestryimages.org

Tennessee State Horse
The Tennessee walking horse is a unique Tennessee breed. You can learn all about the horse breed's history, it's breed characteristics, and much much more on the Tennessee Walking Horse Home Page
Source: Kentucky Horse Park

Tennessee State Insect (Firefly)
The Tennessee state insect is the firefly. Check out this beauitful article about Tennessee fireflies, and how they've recently started to blink in unison.
Source: The Chattooga Quarterly

Raccoon in Cologne Zoo Photo from Wikipedia Commons Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Tennessee State Insect (Ladybeetle) - Easy Reading
Tennessee's other state insect is the lady beetle. Check out this great information. Check the first link for the most complete document, or click on "Easy Reading" for the more simple version.
Source: Garden Insects, and Walled Lake Consolidated School District, respectively.

Tennessee State Reptile
Check out this fantasic page on the eastern box turtle call teach you all about the eastern box turtle's life cycle and where she lives.
Source: Chesapeakebay Program

Tennessee State Wild Animal
This wonderful full-color raccoon nature guide has loads of information and great photographs. Learn about the raccoon's life cycle, habitat, diet, and more. Simply double-click the photographs to enlarge them.
Source: New Hampshire Public Television

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