Free downloadable macro photos of insects, flowers, reptiles, etc., taken in late 2025 and into 2026. Page under construction with hopefully more to come.
A small beetle at the Cairns Botanic gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Probably Cytaea plumbeiventris. Cairns Botanic gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Butterfly wing. Australian Butterfly Sanctuary. Photo: David Clode.
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Brazilian Owl Moth wing. Australian Butterfly sanctuary. Photo: David Clode.
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A hairy caterpillar at the Cairns Botanic gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Macro photo of the eye of a baby estuarine crocodile. Photo: David Clode.
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Perhaps an undescribed species of Afraflacilla Jumping Spider (already discovered but not yet described.. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Possibly an undescribed species of Afraflacilla, same individual as the photo above. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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A bug laying eggs. Photo: David Clode.
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Macro photo of the stigma and stamens of a hippeastrum flower. Photo: David Clode.
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A small fly species in the Cairns Botanic Gardens.
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Honey bees visiting the flowers of a Coral Vine, Antigonon leptopus. This is one of the best bee plants in the tropics. Photo: David Clode.
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A spider in the Cairns Botanic Gardens.
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Swift’s Ant-hunter Spider. Cairns Botanic Gardens, Australia. Photo: David Clode.
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A Swift’s Ant-hunter Spider with its Green Tree Ant prey. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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The underside of a Northern Jewelled Spider. Cairns Botanic Gardens.
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A Praying Mantis. Kuranda, Queensland, Australia. Photo: David Clode.
Photographic equipment includes a Canon R7 (mostly), R5, Canon 100mm macro, Laowa 90mm macro, and frequently a Canon flash or Laowa Kwangren twin flash, and occasionally a Manfrotto Lumimuse 8 led light, or just natural light.
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An Australian Native Bee (less than half the size of a house fly} on a Cannon Ball Tree flower. Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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Australian Native Bees in a bee hive, Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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An Australian Native Bee on a Coral vine. Photo: David Clode.
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A Copperband Butterflyfish at the Cairns Aquarium. Photo: David Clode.
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A species of Goby at the Cairns Aquarium. Photo: David Clode.
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Small beetles in an Abelmoschus moschatus flower. Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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Beetles in an Abelmoschus moschatus flower. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Abelmoschus moschatus flower plus a small ant. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo by David Clode.
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Larva of a Cairns Birdwing butterfly. Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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Caterpillar of a Cairns Birdwing Butterfly. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo by David Clode.
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A Cairns Birdwing Butterfly caterpillar displaying its osmeterium as a warning signal. Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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A Cairns Birdwing Butterfly larvae displaying its osmeterium. Photo: David Clode.
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Rain forest ants on a Heliconia rostrata flower. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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A rain forest ant on a heliconia flower at the Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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A Pygmy Python at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures, near Cairns, Australia. The smallest type of python in the world. Photo: David Clode.
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Iridescent scales of a Reticulated Python, the longest type of snake in the world. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.
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Inland Taipan. The most venomous snake in the world. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures, near Cairns, Australia. Photo: David Clode.
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A fly on a Coral Vine. Photo: David Clode.
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Eucalyptus flowers at various stages of opening. Corymbia ptychocarpa, previously Eucalyptus ptychocarpa. Photo: David Cloce.
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A spider protecting her egg sac, underneath the leaf of a King Fern. Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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A female Sparkling Northern Jumping Spider, Cosmophasis micarioides. Smaller than a house fly. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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A Cosmophasis spider. Cairns, Australia. Photo: David Clode.
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Tropical crepe myrtle flower. Cairns, David Clode.
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Clitorea ternatea flower. Cairns. David clode.
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A fly at the Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Along-legged or Dolichopodid Fly. Cairns Botanic Gardens. David clode.
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A Long-legged or Dolichopodid Fly. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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A Black Soldier Fly or American Soldier Fly. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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A White-lipped Tree Frog. Cairns. David Clode.
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A bug in the Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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An Orchid beetle in Kuranda, Australia. David Clode.
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Mating flies. Kuranda. Photo: David Clode.
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A Swift’s Ant-hunter Spider has caught a Green Tree Ant. On a steel fence at the Cairns Botanic Gardens. David Clode.
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