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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Knotweed Family
  7. Wild Buckwheats
  8. Buckwheat
  9. Santa Cruz Island Wild Buckwheat
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  11. Plant eaters

Plant eaters on Santa Cruz Island Wild Buckwheat

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

  • Elegant Grass-carrying Wasp Isodontia elegans 2 records
  • Forked Globetail Sphaerophoria sulphuripes 1 record
  • Sphex lucae 35 records on wild buckwheats
  • Western Yellowjacket Vespula pensylvanica 10 records on wild buckwheats
  • Hemipenthes inops 6 records on wild buckwheats
  • Red-shouldered Leaf Beetle Saxinis saucia 5 records on wild buckwheats
  • California Yellowjacket Vespula sulphurea 4 records on wild buckwheats
  • Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp Sceliphron caementarium 3 records on wild buckwheats
  • Oblique Streaktail Allograpta obliqua 3 records on wild buckwheats
  • Western Aphideater Eupeodes fumipennis 3 records on wild buckwheats
  • Euodynerus annulatus 3 records on wild buckwheats
  • Single-banded Plushback Palpada alhambra 3 records on wild buckwheats
  • Van Duzee's Cicada Tibicinoides vanduzeei 3 records on wild buckwheats
  • Figeater Beetle Cotinis mutabilis 2 records on wild buckwheats
  • Conura amoena 2 records on wild buckwheats

Not native to the US

1 animal, most recorded first.

  • European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula 1 record · introduced

Nativity unknown

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

  • Swift Feather-legged Fly Trichopoda pennipes 2 records on wild buckwheats

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