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silver Y

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silver Y (plural silver Ys)

  1. Ant of species Autographa gamma of moths, having distinctive Y-shaped marks on their forewings.
    • 1992, BBC Wildlife, volume 11, page 69:
      The differences between the silver-y moth and its two newly described siblings – Autographa messmeri and A. voelkeri – are rather less obvious.
    • 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:
      There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
    • 2016 July 11, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:
      Ronaldo’s moth was one of thousands of Silver Y moths, a migratory species that moves north through Europe each summer in search of new breeding grounds, returning south in the autumn.

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