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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. Papaipema leucostigma
  9. Bracken Borer Moth

species 1,640 observations

Bracken Borer Moth

Papaipema pterisii

Status
presumed native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

53 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Common Bracken, Male Fern, Spinulose Wood Fern, Intermediate Wood Fern 12
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Canada Goldenrod, Tall Goldenrod, Common Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod, Giant Goldenrod 41

Range

United States

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

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