A flower spider Thomisus sp. on a cannonball tree flower, Cairns botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
Photos of Australian insects, spiders, and other macro photos. You may also like to visit the page “Photos Australian Dragonflies” and “Photos Insects Spiders 2” and “Photos Butterflies”.
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Dolichopodid fly with it’s meal. Photo: David Clode.
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St Andrews Cross Spider. Photo: David Clode.
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St Andrews Cross Spider. Photo: David Clode.
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Water spider (Hygropoda sp?) sitting on the surface of the water, with it’s shadow falling on the rock beneath the surface of the water. Cairns Botanic gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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A phasmid or stick insect mimics sticks . Barron Gorge National Park, North Queensland Australia. Photo: David Clode.
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Flying stick insect. Yorkeys, Cairns. Photo: David Clode.
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Possibly a Grayanus Christmas Beetle Caloodes grayanus. Yungaburra, North Queensland, Australia, David Clode.
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Peppermint stick insect. Photo: David Clode, at the Cairns Aquarium.
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Two Prickly Katydids Phricta spinosa camouflaged against a branch. Photo: David Clode.
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Jumping Spider Mopsus Mormon male. Photo: David Clode.
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Jumping Spider Mopsus mormon. Photo: David Clode.
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Female Mopsus Mormon. Photo: David Clode.
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Lynx spider has caught a native bee. Photo: David Clode.
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An Australian Lynx spider Oxyopes sp. has caught a small native bee. Photo: David Clode.
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Lynx spider portrait.
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Jumping spider or Flower spider Cosmophasis species. Cairns. Photo: David Clode.
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Cosmophasis Jumping spider on an Ixora flower. Photo: David Clode.
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Jumping spider (drinking nectar? – there were drops of water around and no other insects). Cosmophasis sp. Photo: David Clode
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Cosmophasis micans Peacock jumping spider. On red Ixora leaf, Palm Royale hotel, Cairns. Photo: David Clode.
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Peacock Jumping Spider. Photo: David Clode. Edge Hill suburb, Cairns, on Ficus ‘Green Island’.
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Australian Jumping Spider.
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Spiny spider photographed from underneath. Photo: David Clode.
Black and Yellow Spiny Spider Gasteracantha fornicata. “It was the first spider to be collected and recorded by science from Australia”. Patrick Honan.
St Andrew’s Cross spider.
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Golden Orb Spider. Nephila sp. Photo: David Clode.
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Blue-banded bee coming in for nectar. Photo: David Clode.
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Blue-banded bee. Amegilla sp. (flower – Turnera subulata).Cairns. Photo: David Clode.
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Blue-banded bee. Photo: David Clode.
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Blue-banded bee. Photo: David Clode.
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Neon Cuckoo bee Thyreus nitidulus. About half the size of a honeybee. Palm Royale hotel, Cairns. Photo: David Clode.
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A potter wasp Delta arcuata arrives to collect mud to make its nest. Photo: David Clode.
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Potter wasp collecting mud to make a nest.
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Orange Potter Wasp building a nest. Eumenes latreilli.
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A job well done.
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She has provided a caterpillar for her larva.
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Digger wasp. Sphex cognatus.
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Hopefully, much more to come. See also “Photos Insects spiders 2” and “Photos Australian Dragonflies”.
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Thank you for making these brilliant images available.
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Hi Martin – it is my pleasure.
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Thanks again, what I thought was a Jumping Spider is a Lynx
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