This year is the 50th anniversary of the year that the State Legislature designated Zerene eurydice as the state insect. Gov. Ronald Reagan signed it into law on July 28, 1972. The free family ...

Few people have. And odds are you may never see it. Yet the fast, high-flying California Dogface Butterfly (Zerene eurydice)–officially declared the state insect in 1972 – is right at home in ...