I give up! Three partially-identified beasties.

It's definitely moth season. They're everywhere. A few minutes ago, I even noticed a tiny Indian meal moth trying to crawl into the hinge of my laptop. I found this plume moth in the bathroom sink:

Plume moth, Pterophoridae

Last year, we saw bigger plume moths about; they had tightly rolled-up wings, and slept in a rigid T shape, with 4 legs forming a neat X beneath. The last two legs were hidden.

This one is smaller, more relaxed, leggy, and feathery. I checked BugGuide for an ID, but gave up soon; there are 624 photos there! And too many look alike. I'll have to bother them with my photos, I guess.

The wings of plume moths are split, into two parts (plumes), as here, or three.

Tortricid. Tufted moth, unidentified.

This little critter was resting on the laundry that I had hung out to dry. It's just one cm. long, less than half an inch. These moths wear two or three tufts of feathers on the upper back.

As above, I gave up on the photos on BugGuide, but not until I'd put in an hour squinting at 24,000 photos. I quit when I got to the 100th page and realized that there were still 69 left to go! I am once again amazed at the incredible diversity of our tiny neighbours.

And Jumpy, here, is getting fat on moths:

Jumping spider. High up on a wall, so I could barely see his headlight eyes.

Jumping spiders are easy to recognize. At least, to that level; jumpers. As to the genus and maybe species, that's hard work. BugGuide has 303 pages of them, 24 photos to a page. Seven thousand, two hundred and seventy two photos of jumping spiders!

I think that's a job for another day.