@riannkrusnik13 submitted: Spring is here!! A few new friends I found a couple days ago after dark 😊
Pic 1 (no flash) & 2 (with flash): same pair hanging out on wall near porch light! Their colors are slightly varied but I think they’re the same species! I’d say roughly 2in from forewing tip to forewing tip in size.
Pic 3 (with flash): A friend slightly larger than first 2 pics and was hanging out in that spot for a couple days.
Pic 4 (with flash), 5 (no flash), & 6 (with flash): A different friend of I think is also the same species as pic 3 who was kind enough to crawl onto my fingertip for a small photoshoot! Fluffy!!
Pic 7 (with flash): A very tiny spiderling doing her best!! She’s roughly the size of the tip of a chopstick (very smol indeed) and is currently living directly underneath the porch light fixture.
If possible I’d love an ID on the moths (the spiderling is quite small so I’ll wait until she’s bigger for an ID)! PNW Oregon/Washington for location 😊
What a nice bunch of friends! You’re right, not much hope of IDing the spider without being able to see more detail.
The first two moths are both pug moths, which are a type of geometer in the genus Eupithecia. The one on the bottom looks like Eupithecia ravocostaliata, the tawny Eupithecia. The one above it could be the same species since they do have quite a lot of variation between individuals but I don’t feel confident about that. There are many species that look similar to the coloring on that one and some are near impossible to ID to a species level just based on a photo.
Pics 3-5 are definitely noctuids, and probably speckled green fruitworm moths, Orthosia hibisci. :)