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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Dart, Sallow, and Cutworm Moths and Allies
  7. Borer Moths
  8. Oligophagous Fern Borer Moths
  9. Sensitive Fern Borer Moth

species 2,754 observations

Sensitive Fern Borer Moth

Papaipema inquaesita

Status
presumed native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

60 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Sensitive Fern 1
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Common Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod, Common Blue Wood Aster, Canada Goldenrod, Tall Goldenrod 59

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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