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New Hampshire State Butterfly What is the NH State Butterfly? The New Hampshire State Butterfly is an endangered subspecies of butterfly called Karner Blue. The Karner Blue, or Lycaeides Melissa Samuelis is a subspecies of The Small Blue Butterfly. The Karner Blue Butterfly was adopted in 1992 as the NH State Butterfly but is rarely seen here in New Hampshire. Read more...

What is the State Insect For New Hampshire The New Hampshire state insect, adopted in 1977 is the Ladybug. Many think the NH state insect should be the Mosquito since we seem to have more of those than the Ladybug. The Ladybug doesn’t bite so we are grateful to have such a great state insect for New Hampshire!   Read more...

Population of New Hampshire The population of NH has increased dramatically over the last 40 years. In 2015, the population of New Hampshire passed the population of its neighboring, and much larger state Maine. In 2015 the population of New Hampshire was 1.33 million and Maine’s population was 1.329 millon. In 2016, the reported population of New Hampshire was 1.335 Read more...