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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
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  6. Brackens and Allies
  7. Bracken Ferns
  8. Common Bracken
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What Common Bracken supports

35 native animals
supported in the US
18 caterpillars 14 food 2 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pale Homochlodes Moth Homochlodes fritillaria
  • Silver-spotted Fern Moth Callopistria cordata
  • Bracken Borer Moth Papaipema pterisii
  • Black Arches Melanchra assimilis
  • Green Arches Anaplectoides prasina
  • Pink-shaded Fern Moth Callopistria mollissima
  • Northern Petrophora Moth Petrophora subaequaria
  • Garden Tiger Arctia caja
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Mastopoda pteridis
  • Red-marked Leaf Beetle Cryptocephalus notatus
  • Heath Spittlebug Clastoptera saintcyri
  • Eriophyes helicantyx
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Taschenberg's Odorous Ant Dolichoderus taschenbergi

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Knotting Gall Chirosia betuleti

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