Flower-Visiting Insects
of Bracken Fern

Pteridium aquilinum latiusculum (Bracken Fern)
(This fern has large extrafloral nectaries at the apex of the petioles of its compound leaves and small extrafloral nectaries at the apex of the petiolules of its leaflets. Ants and a small number of other insects suck nectar from these extrafloral nectaries. Observations are from Wilhelm & Rericha.)

Ants
Formicidae (Dolichoderinae): Dolichoderus mariae sn@exfl (WR), Tapinoma sessile sn@exfl (WR); Formicidae (Formicinae): Brachymyrmex depilis sn@exfl (WR), Camponotus americanus sn@exfl (WR), Camponotus nearcticus sn@exfl (WR), Camponotus noveboracensis sn@exfl (WR), Camponotus pennsylvanicus sn@exfl (WR), Camponotus subbarbatus sn@exfl (WR), Formica dolosa sn@exfl (WR), Formica incerta sn@exfl (WR), Formica lasioides sn@exfl (WR), Formica neogagates sn@exfl (WR), Formica pallidefulva sn@exfl (WR), Formica subaenescens sn@exfl (WR), Formica subsericea sn@exfl (WR), Formica vinculans sn@exfl (WR), Lasius alienus sn@exfl (WR), Lasius neoniger sn@exfl (WR), Prenolepis imparis sn@exfl (WR); Formicidae (Myrmicinae): Aphaenogaster rudis sn@exfl (WR), Aphaenogaster treatae sn@exfl (WR), Crematogaster cerasi sn@exfl (WR), Crematogaster lineolata sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica AF-scu sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica AF-smi sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica americana sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica detritinodis sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica fracticornis sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica latifrons sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica pinetorum sn@exfl (WR), Myrmica punctiventris sn@exfl (WR), Temnothorax ambiguus sn@exfl (WR), Temnothorax curvispinosus sn@exfl (WR), Temnothorax texanus sn@exfl (WR)

Plant Bugs
Pentatomidae: Euschistus variolarius sn@exfl (WR)

Sucking Insects
Membracidae: Ceresa lutea sn@exfl (WR)

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