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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Basils
  8. Sweet Basil
  9. Supports
  10. Caterpillars

Caterpillars on Sweet Basil

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

  • Celery Leaftier Moth Udea rubigalis 2 records
  • Soybean Looper Moth Chrysodeixis includens 2 records
  • Sri Lanka Plume Moth Stenoptilodes taprobanes 2 records
  • Brown Triangle Snout Hypena lividalis 1 record

Not native to the US

1 animal, most recorded first.

  • Tomato Looper Chrysodeixis chalcites 4 records · introduced

Nativity unknown

3 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

  • Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak Strymon bazochii 5 records
  • Knot Grass Moth Acronicta rumicis 3 records
  • Convolvulus Hawkmoth Agrius convolvuli 1 record

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