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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Ferns
  5. Polypodiales
  6. Brackens and Allies
  7. Bracken Ferns
  8. Eastern Brackenfern
  9. Supports

What Eastern Brackenfern supports

6 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 food 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pale Homochlodes Moth Homochlodes fritillaria on bracken ferns
  • Black Arches Melanchra assimilis on bracken ferns
  • Fern Olethreutes Moth Olethreutes osmundana on bracken ferns

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mastopoda pteridis
  • Yellowfin Tuna Thunnus albacares on bracken ferns

Sheltered animals All

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

  • Tyson's Big-headed Ant Pheidole tysoni

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