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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. Plant eaters

Plant eaters on Sweet Basil

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

  • American Goldfinch Spinus tristis 1 record
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris 1 record
  • Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis 1 record
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii 1 record
  • Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus 1 record

Not native to the US

6 animals, most recorded first.

  • Ligurian Leafhopper Eupteryx decemnotata 9 records · introduced
  • Oriental Beetle Exomala orientalis 7 records · introduced
  • Leafhopper Eupteryx atropunctata 5 records · introduced
  • Spotted Lanternfly Lycorma delicatula 2 records · introduced
  • Meadow Spittlebug Philaenus spumarius 1 record · introduced
  • Twospotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae 1 record · introduced

Nativity unknown

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

  • Basil Lace Bug Cochlochila bullita 12 records
  • Melon Aphid Aphis gossypii 3 records
  • Sloe Bug Dolycoris baccarum 2 records
  • Brown Leaf Beetle Chrysolina staphylaea 2 records
  • Cottony Cushion Scale Icerya purchasi 1 record
  • Green Peach Aphid Myzus persicae 1 record
  • Réunion’ Planthopper Euroxenus vayssieresi 1 record
  • Plant Bug Apolygus lucorum 1 record
  • Onion Thrips Thrips tabaci 1 record

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