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    Default Silver Y - Autographa gamma

    Found this today along the estuary and chased it about to get different views
    It has a silver-coloured Y shaped like Greek letter Gamma(y)
    Hence it's name. Autographa gamma
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    The first one shows the coiled tongue well Beryl.
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    Yes I was lucky there . They are very sensitive.
    I think the tongue is called proboscis
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