Amber Stones For Sale with Insects and Other Bugs (buying fossil amber)

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

Sale Price
Description of the Specimen

$228
1. An Ichneumon wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumon)! These are very rare in Dominican (or Baltic for that matter) amber. This is in a small, roundish piece of amber, and very visible.
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$187
2. This is a large piece of clear Dominican amber. It weighs 37.2 grams and is about 2 inches x 1.5 x 1 inch. There are 5 wood gnats in the piece, Diptera, Anisopodidae. In addition to that there are 2 leaflets from some unknown plant that lost its parts 24 million year ago. Also there is a small beetle. This is a nice piece for anyone's collection.
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$66
3. I think this is a caddis fly, Diptera, Trichoptera, it could be a moth, since it was difficult to see the mouth area. This is a very nice caddis fly though. Also included in this piece is a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae and very an unusual mite (good sized).
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$775
SOLD 4. Millipede Order Polyxenida, Class Diplopoda, >Polyxenidae! This specimen is as nice as they get. Perfectly clear yellow amber and easy to see. You can see each segment along with the hairs. This specimen is priced very well! This is a magnificent piece of amber with the specimen easily seen.
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$427
5. This is as impressive as it gets. There is a flower here, you can even see the stigma. The amber is large, very clear and a perfect shape for a large pendant. This is a very impressive piece of amber - it does not get any better. This is one piece you will love.
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$39
SOLD 6. A very small fly, but next to him are some air bubbles (small ones) that contain water. When you move the amber, the air bubbles move. This is often called an 'en-hydro'. Good price.
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$58
SOLD 7. It is not often that when you look at a piece of amber, there is an immediate tale. This piece tells the story of a spider and a fly. Possibly when the fly was stuck a in the sticky resin, the seductive lure of the fly was too much for the spider and it pounced on the fly, only to become entombed in the resin and forever stuck and preserved for eternity.
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$183
8. What a beauty! Talk about taking a long time to determine all that is in here. There is a scad of termite wings and bodies. But to the amber's credit, there are beetles and lots of ants and even a wasp. Even organic unknowns (2 of them.) Lastly there is a very nice mite it is one of the prostigmata mites in Trombidiformes in the Family Caeculidae, Caeculus sp. Very interesting mites.
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$49
9. This has some of the strangest animals. I am not sure on all of them. There is a mite, an unknown true bug, Hemiptera and a bunch other stuff. This is a very interesting piece of amber.
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$263
10. Here is a pseudoscorpion. Pseudoscorpions are very small - this being no exception. They are very uncommon in amber and command the highest of prices. This one is at the edge of the small piece of very clear amber, and is complete. It does not show hardly at all on the scan. Since is a pseudoscorpion all by itself on this page - the price is VERY good for this specimen! The amber is a round cab shape.
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$103
10. Hard to photograph because of the location of the animal. This is a nice piece with a great centrally located Pseudoscorpion. Both pincers are in front and ready for the attack! Scanned Image!!

$32
12. Elongated cab shape piece of Dominican amber. This has 3 worker termites - at least one which is missing it's head......... It is a nice and clear piece.
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$42
13. An interesting true bug, Hemiptera, Emesinae. This thread-legged bug is very likely to be mistaken for a walking stick (Phasmatidae: Orthoptera). There is also a moth fly, Diptera, Psychodidae.
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$297
14. A small piece of amber with some surface glazing. But inside, oh inside you will see the rare female mosquito, Culicidae. These are just plain rare since the amber smell does not attract these insects. Very nice specimen, you will enjoy the microphotography. These are very rare.
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$144
15. This is a beautiful piece of amber. It is very clear and has a lovely cab shape to it. Near the middle, just off center is an adult planthopper, Homoptera, Fulgoridea. This would be perfect for someone's collection.
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$39
16. This is an interesting piece of amber. It has a plant part - although I am not sure what it is. Possibly it is a plant leaflet. There is also a small unknown beetle.
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$86
17. Reddish piece of Dominican amber that contains a nice cricket. The cricket, Orthoptera, has a decomposition gas coming from what looks like the mouth area. You can see the pattern on the hind leg. Also has a gnat.
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$42
18. Very clear piece of amber that contains a nice leaf beetle, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidea. A good piece.
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$39
19. Nice piece with a tropical stingless bee (very easily seen), Hymenoptera, Melipodidae. Also there is some impressive layering from successive resin flows - cool to look at.
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$71
20. Some things are cool and then some things are really cool. This is really cool. It is an unknown coprolite. My guess is that this is from a snail. Look at the pictures closely - neat.
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$99

21. This is a good sized piece of amber with a very clear interior. The insects are beautiful. The detail will really shock you (at least under a microscope...). There are a couple of good looking black scavenger flies, Diptera, Scatopsidae. Just one heck of a piece.

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$65
22. Here you will find a winged termite in all it's glory. There is even another pair of wings next to the unlucky fellow who died 24 million years ago.
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$124
23. I have never seen anything just like this one. The amber has a bunch of termite nymphs, Mastotermes. But there is a white coating on all the animals. Now, sometimes I see something like this in Baltic amber, but never in Dominican amber. I do not know what type of conditions bring about this type of preservation 9about.
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$99
24. Possibly a larvae of an unknown insect. The amber is tear drop shape, flattish on one side and perfectly clear throughout. Superb specimen. The larvae is curled.
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$47
25. I love pieces like this. There is a small gnat, nothing big......... but when you look around you can see the remains of a spider web. Very cool.
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$212
26. 2 pinhole borer beetles, Order Coleoptera, Family Platypodidae. This is a large piece, 3 by 3 inches. There are lots of organic debris and some tubular waste looking items, along with many air bubbles, a wasp and lots of other stuff. Scanned Image!

$43
SOLD 27. Very nice piece with a great spider off to one side. The spider is 'large' (for the piece) and easily seen. There is also an unknown Dipteran.
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$64
28. There is a lot here. This includes 2 winged termites, Isoptera, 2 fungus gnats, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, 1 flat bark beetle, Coleoptera, Cucujidae and even more.
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$81

29. A small piece of amber with a very rare Ichneumon wasp. These are parasitic wasps who lay their eggs in living insects and the larvae eat the insect, inside out. You do not see the Ichneumon wasps in amber very often.
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$13
SOLD 30. This amber has numerous air bubbles which obscure the moth, Lepidoptera. You can see the curled probiscus, so we do know it is a moth.
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$139
31. A rare Ichneumon wasp, Hymenoptera, Ichineumonidae. These wasps are rather hard to find in amber. They are parasitic wasps that are particularly "tough" little critters. This one is priced to sell. There is also what I think (not sure though) is a barklice, Psocoptera, Family Caeciliidae and a thrip and one more unknown.
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