As you go through these pages, if there is any type of specimen you do not see but are interested in, please feel free to contact us, we have a rather large inventory. I suspect we can fill your needs, even if you are in need of a particular beetle family or another specific request- we have it!

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All specimens on this page are from the Dominican Republic and about 24 million years old.

 

Sale Price	Description of the Specimen
$69	1. This piece of Dominican amber reminds me of a large guitar pic. It is a busy piece with 5 platypodid beetles, Coleoptera, Playtpodidae. Also there are two small but distinct mites - really cool. If the second one is a mite, (not sure) then it is in it's 1st instar stage. There is also a gall gnat. Scanned Image!
$148	2. This is a perfect piece of Dominican amber that can be made into an impressive pendant. A band of gold or silver plus a clasp would make the breathtaking. Now, not only that, but this piece has numerous flower parts scattered throughout. Not only that, but there is a flower. An unusual flower. This has terminal knobs that I think are the stamen parts. Very unusual and not seen in other pieces. Scanned Image!
$14 SOLD	3. Wonderful cab, that contains a couple of nice female worker ants. I like things when you can get a good piece at a great price - this is it. Scanned Image!
$668	4. This is as good as it gets. A wonderful piece of Dominican amber with the perfect spider - in the perfect piece. This is clear, big and beautiful. They do not come better than this. The spider is perfect and it is also large. It can be used as the ideal specimen or if you like, you could make a stunning pendant from it. Take a look at the pictures and you will agree. This is one of the finest pieces that I have seen in years. Scanned Image.
$95	5. If you are looking for a 24 million year old fly - look no further. Here is a perfect piece, clear, great color with a very nice fly, Diptera, Brachycera, off to one side. Great quality, superior piece. There is also a biting midge, Ceratopogonidae. Scanned Image.
$47	6. Clear and on the 'perfect' side, this contains an ambrosia beetle, Coleoptera, Platypodidae and a small gall gnat. Nice piece. Scanned Image
$99	7. This is beautiful specimen of a ptilodactylid beetle, Coleoptera, Ptilodactylidae. It is absolutely perfect. The antennae of the male are pectinate showing finger-like processes. This is the piece that if you ever want to show a ptilodactyl beetle, you will pull this one out. It is perfect. Scanned Image
$187	8. I love this one. It has 2 very unique things. First, I just get a kick out of spider webs in amber - a nice web showing a bunch of the small globules that make the web sticky. Spider webs in amber are rare (obviously). No animals are caught in the web, but this is very cool. Now for the second neat thing: there are two leaf beetles, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae - one of which has a large mite on it's side and what appears to be two small mites on it's side. Talk about a piece of amber telling a story. While the two beetles are not unique by themselves, the spider web and the parasitic mites - just really cool. This is a nice enough cut and polish to make into a pendant. This has everything. Scanned Image!
$452	9. Here is another piece with a story and this is a sharp story. Nice sized piece of amber that contains many captured female worker ants. This reminds me of the tent caterpillars that I used to see in Michigan as a child. Needless to say, these are not caterpillars, but the surrounding 'mesh' reminds me of them. There must be one or two dozen worker ants that became trapped 25 million years ago and are still inside the 'mesh' that surrounded them. It does look like there is a beetle in the middle, but I am not sure on this. This is a very nice piece. You do not find this type of uniqueness very often. Scanned Image!
$75	10. Nice sized piece of amber with a single lauxanid fly, Diptera, Lauxaniidae. The fly is particularly well preserved. The facets of the eye are impressive. Scanned Image
$112	11. A large an clear piece of amber with a small, but perfect isopod. Isopods have seven pairs of legs, corresponding to the last seven thoracic segments. Isopods, together with shrimps, crabs, lobsters and water fleas are crustaceans. This isopod is in the family Sphaeroniscidae. Scanned Image!
$137 SOLD	12. The perfect piece. This has one large and easily seen spider. The abdomen has an air bubble with debris inside. This is fairly flat on both sides and also has straight sides - perfect to put a silver or gold band around and make into a pendant. A very special and very nice piece. Scanned Image
$95	13. There are 3 winged termites, Isoptera, in this amber. Very unusual to find even 1. On top of that there is a wasp and some other unknown Dipteran (the elongated abdomen.) Good piece to round off a collection. Scanned Image!
$366	14. We do not normally put such an expensive piece of the first page, but this is special. It looks like there is an assassin bug, Hemiptera, Reduviidae, just about to get a female mosquito, Diptera, Culicidae. That is probably an 'artifact' of their positioning - but boy it does look like that. Mosquito's are just about impossible to find since they are not attracted to resin and assassin bugs are rather a special find, if you can find one at all. All in all, quite a piece of amber, with a great story. The center animal is a curled up ant. Scanned Image
$139	15. Flower parts galore. There are leaves, stems all over this large piece of amber. In fact items are so large, that microscopic pictures are not as good as the scans. It is unusual to get this many large pieces of plants in amber. Scanned Image!
$153	16. Here is a rare piece. This has an uncommon bristletail, Thysanura. While not impossible to find, they are not seen often. On top of that, there is a leaf cutter ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. Scanned Image!
$183	17. Big piece of Dominican amber. This has an obvious curled leaf and part of the leaf stem (petiole). Now here is a rare animal - it has a bristletail, Thysanura. Take a look at the pictures, you will an amazing animal here. There are also a bunch of other animals, a planthopper, Fulgoridea, 2 spiders, a fly, Brachycera and even more. Quite a piece. Scanned Image!
$78	18. One lone beetle awash in a sea of yellow. This has a Bark Beetle, Coleoptera, family Scolytidae. As I commented earlier the scolytid beetles are still found on the few Hymenaea(algarrobo) trees here in the Dominican Republic, under the bark and in the seed pods. Off to the side is a very pretty Chalcidid wasp, Hymenoptera family Chalcididae. This piece is flat on one side and teardrop shape for the rest. Scanned Image!
$58	19. Clear piece of amber that contains a bark-gnawing beetle. Coleoptera, Ostomatidae. The beetle is nice sized. Scanned Image!
$47	20. You can see a nice anther and filament (stamen), part of a twig and the fuzzy remains of a leaf. Scanned Image!
$98 SOLD	21. Elongated piece of amber, rather like an amber tube. This has a perfect cricket near one end. This is a special piece since the shape is so unique and the animal specimen is so good. There is a winged termite and the far end. Scanned Image!
$85	22. You are going to love this one. There is a roach, Blattidae off to the side. "He" is complete. There is an unusual fungus looking white area near the back. In fact it looks like there is rope (it is not rope) going around the unknown malady of the roach. Scanned Image!
$162 SOLD	23. Very clear and perfect cab with just one animal - an assassin bug, Hemiptera, Reduviidae. At least I think it is Reduviidae, upon second looks, it could be Nabidae (family). Very nice piece. Scanned Image!
$96	24. A great cab shape to this future pendant. Inside is a beautiful cluster of what looks like a multi-branched Bryophyte (plant). Really nice - this has a lot of potential. Scanned Image!
$88	25. There is a story with this one. There is almost a dozen male fungus gnats, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, trapped in this amber. They were probably out on a Saturday night looking for mates and flew into the sticky resin, where they still are 24 million years ago. Cool piece. Scanned Image!
$58	26. There is a mite sitting on top of what looks like part of a petiole. This is a fun piece, you cannot go wrong with mites. This is even pretty good sized (as far as mites go.) Scanned Image!
$238	27. What a piece. Possibly one of the most beautiful ichneumonid wasps, Hymenoptera, Ischneumonidae, that I have ever seen. This is such a perfect specimen. A museum specimen. Take a look at the scanned image, you will see what I am talking about. Scanned Image!
$89	28. There is just something about a spider web. They are really neat. Here is one, in fact it is 24 million years old. Admittedly it does not look exactly like a perfect web, but you can see where it has been dragged into the sticky resin. Scanned Image
$77	29. The surface of this piece has numerous crazing around it (it can be polished out). That is the negative part - here is the positive part - it also has a large pyritized liverwort. It looks really nice. There is also a fly and an ant. Also has a springtail, Collembola. Scanned Image!
$24	30. Have we got a great deal for you. We just got back from the Dominican Republic and bought a "bag full" of pendants like the ones to the left. Some have bugs, most do not, but each one is special and hand done. Since we got such a good deal on them, we pass it on to you, these are only $25 each. You do not get to pick, this will be a situation where we reach into the bag and pull out one randomly. This is a real, real good deal. Our numbers are limited though. Scanned Image!
SALE 60% OFF $11.95 $4.95	In the I Dig Bugs Amber Fossil Excavation by Action Products kit you can dig out a genuine insect preserved in simulated amber. Sometimes small plants or animals are found trapped inside the amber and are perfectly preserved, just as in this I Dig Bugs: Amber Fossil Excavation Kit by Action Products. This is shipped 1st class mail or Parcel Post due to the weight. Included is a realistic sand block, steel tools, glasses, full color facts poster and necklace string for the option to wear the amber nugget. Intended for ages 8 and up. This is a great gift idea at an unbelievable cost.
$7.15	We have been looking for a good jewel er's loupe that will not break the bank. This is it. Well built, good optics and something that everyone can afford. Our main goal with this loupe was that it would be a triplet loupe, have good optics and would not break the next day. Finally we wanted a loupe that you could give to a kid (or use yourself) and then not have to cry when the child lost the loupe. This just fits the bill every way around. You will love it. This is a 10X loupe (even though it does say 20X). It has all the power you will ever need. This has it's own page also.
	An authentic touch screen scale. It has a lid that opens up to an impressive touch screen scale. It is 4.5 x 2.5 inches x .5 inches deep. Very nicely built - this beauty even comes with a pouch so it does not get scratched. This is really a nice instrument.

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