What Sweet Basil supports

77 native animals
supported in the US

4 caterpillars 5 food 68 flowers

Caterpillars All

4 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

• Celery Leaftier Moth Udea rubigalis
• Soybean Looper Moth Chrysodeixis includens
• Sri Lanka Plume Moth Stenoptilodes taprobanes
• Brown Triangle Snout Hypena lividalis

Plant eaters All

5 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

• American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
• Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris
• Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis
• American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
• Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus

Flower visitors All

68 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

• Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
• Great Southern White Ascia monuste
• Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
• White Peacock Anartia jatrophae
• Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
• Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius
• Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
• Hayhurst's Scallopwing Staphylus hayhurstii

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