Free downloadable macro photos of insects, flowers, reptiles, etc., taken in late 2025 and into 2026. Page under construction with hopefully more to come.
Perhaps an undescribed species of Afraflacilla Jumping Spider.. 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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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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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 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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