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  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
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What supports Bracken Borer Moth

53 native plants
support it in the US
12 caterpillar hosts 41 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

12 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Common Bracken Pteridium aquilinum
  • Male Fern Dryopteris filix-mas on wood ferns
  • Spinulose Wood Fern Dryopteris carthusiana on wood ferns
  • Intermediate Wood Fern Dryopteris intermedia on wood ferns
  • Marginal Wood Fern Dryopteris marginalis on wood ferns
  • Spreading Wood Fern Dryopteris expansa on wood ferns
  • Crested Wood Fern Dryopteris cristata on wood ferns
  • Mountain Wood Fern Dryopteris campyloptera on wood ferns
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Nectar plants All

41 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Canada Goldenrod Solidago canadensis keystone on goldenrods
  • Tall Goldenrod Solidago altissima keystone on goldenrods
  • Common Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod Solidago rugosa keystone on goldenrods
  • Giant Goldenrod Solidago gigantea keystone on goldenrods
  • Bluestem Goldenrod Solidago caesia keystone on goldenrods
  • Broad-leaved Goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis keystone on goldenrods
  • Northern Seaside Goldenrod Solidago sempervirens keystone on goldenrods
  • Early Goldenrod Solidago juncea keystone on goldenrods
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