Invertebrates that use bracken as a food source

[adampembs]

Can anyone illuminate on this question? The Wikipedia page on bracken lists several butterflies and moths, including fritillaries, but lacks citations and when I look at http://butterfly-conservation.org/files ... rflies.pdf - it is the dog violet that is the food plant, and the bracken only serves as a sun lounger. I did find some bracken being eaten by the good old snail and a reference to a New Scientist article from 1986 where the researchers were experimenting with a southern hemisphere moth that feeds on the plant, and carries a fungus causing a leaf curling disease. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AJU ... ts&f=false

[Chris Yeates]

Hi Adam

http://www.ukflymines.co.uk/Flies/Chiro ... icauda.php

http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Ins ... ridis.html

https://www.fugleognatur.dk/artintro.asp?ID=17731

also (of course) http://bladmineerders.nl/host-plants/pl ... pteridium/

[Simon Horsnall]

See this post: http://www.markgtelfer.co.uk/beetles/a- ... e-endemic/