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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
  5. Polypodiales
  6. Shieldfern Family
  7. Holly Ferns
  8. Western Sword Fern
  9. Supports

What Western Sword Fern supports

7 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

2 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Brown Angle Shades Phlogophora periculosa
  • Thallophaga taylorata

Plant eaters All

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

  • Button's Banana Slug Ariolimax buttoni

Flower visitors All

4 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Corrupt Barklouse Polypsocus corruptus
  • Alder Flea Beetle Altica ambiens
  • Eupteryx furcata

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