Amber Stones & Fossils with Insects, Bugs, and Blue Amber

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

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Price	Specimen Description
$33 SOLD	1. The insects are in a plane that makes observation difficult. There are a number of large wasps, an adult planthopper with the wing pattern still evident and a very small wasp. Scanned Image!
$185 SOLD	2. This amber has class. This is a good sized piece (dome shape with flatish bottom) about an inch long. Wow, does it have a lot inside. Among other things, there are two fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, 2 wasps, Hymenoptera, a good sized bark-gnawing beetle, Coleoptera, Ostomatidae, a springtail, Collembola, Entomobryidae and a gall gnat, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae. Now, there is more, but only about 2 or 3 more. We can see this as one heck of a pendant! There is even what looks like a mammalian hair - although we do not guarantee that. Scanned Image!
$194 SOLD	3. This piece has a depth to it that is seldom seen. The organic debris scattered throughout gives it a 3-D feel, which is very unusual. There is a good sized moth in this piece (at least I think it is a moth - I do not think it is a caddis fly.) The wings have a particularly impressive texture to them. Then near a piece of debris is a mite. Mites are not common, they often attach to animals for rides, as this one probably did. There are a few other miscellaneous animals scattered here also. A very impressive piece of amber. Scanned Image!
$179	4. No collection is complete without the rare bristletail. Bristletails are the most developed of the wingless insects. They undergo simple metamorphosis. Nymphs and adult insects look almost the same. This one is in the subclass Apterygota, order Thysanura. Bristletails are rare in amber. Scanned Image!
$19 SOLD	5. Interesting piece of amber that contains the imprint of a Dipteran who "got away". But the nice thing about this piece is that there is a mite in it. Mites are rather unusual to find. Scanned Image!
$48 SOLD	6. 2 ants, Hymenoptera, Formiciadae (sterile female worker ants) and two spiders, one larger than the other. Concerning the ants, they probably are different species since one is large and the other is small. The amber has a deep amber color to it. Nice piece. Scanned Image
$84	7. If you want to see a lot of winged termites, Isoptera, this is yours! There are so many with such large wings that it looks like a portion of a leaf. There is also a biting midge and a sterile female ant. This is just a good piece. Scanned Image!
$78	8. Rather large piece of very clear amber that has an excellent shape. Good potential for a nice pendant. This amber has a spider and a gall gnat, Diptera, Cecidoomyiidae. There is also a bract from a flower ( small portion of the covering of the flower.) This is a very good price for the piece. Scanned Image!
$137	9. Big piece of Dominican amber. This has an immature planthopper, Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, a gall gnat, Diptera: Cecidomyiidae and a true bug, Hemiptera. I cannot ID the true bug any further. Scanned Image!
$67 SOLD	10. A bunch of flies, Diptera, Brachycera along with a leaf and 2 stamens and filaments. This is a good piece. Scanned Image!
$24 SOLD	11. Good set of termite wings without the termite. Has a robber fly and some other unusual inclusions - one of which looks like part of a leaf. Scanned Image!
$49	12. Three Platypodidae beetles (Coleoptera, Platypodidae): flat-footed ambrosia beetles. The amber is flat on one side and dome shaped on the other. It is very yellow and very clear (better than normal.) This is a potential pendant! Scanned Image!
$17 SOLD	13. This is a small piece of amber with a gnat. Actually it is easy to see the gnat since it is so dark. Scanned Image!
$58 SOLD	14. This amber also is flat on the bottom. It has a lot: there is an adult planthopper, Homoptera, super family Fulgoroidea, a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, a small wasp, Hymenoptera and a misc. leg. The amber has many layers which resulted from a series of different resin flows from the tree. Nice piece. Scanned Image!
$19	15. Small piece of amber. This has lots of organic bits floating around inside. There are two ants, both female worker ants, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. One is large and the other is small. Scanned Image!
$64	16. At first glance, you don't see a lot, but a second glance brings up a new world. There is a ant head, Hymenoptera, Formicidae, along with that there are some gnats, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, a leaf scale, a beetle larvae, and a true midge, Diptera, Chironomidae and a termite (abdomen is sliced off) and even a tube (unknown tube). Scanned Image!
$25 SOLD	17. This has a medium sized wasp, Hymenoptera near the middle, along with air bubbles and a small beetle, Coleoptera. Scanned Image!
$138	18. A Nice shape to this clear piece of Dominican amber. There is a curled worker termite, a springtail, Collembola and what look like 2 dance flies, Diptera, Empididae. Scanned Image!
$38	19. Thick piece of amber with a dark cognac color. This has a flat bark beetle, Coleoptera, Cucujidae, a spider and some other unidentified animals. There is what looks like part of a root system (it is not a root). Scanned Image!
$46 SOLD	20. Flat bottomed piece with a bark beetle, Coleoptera, family Scolytidae. Also has part of a spider that was cut off. Good piece for the beetle lover! It also has some organic debris in it. Scanned Image!
$87 SOLD	21. Large chunk of amber. It is clear with some 24 million year old air bubbles. There is a nice spider and a flat bark beetle, Coleoptera, Cucujidae. On one side is a winged termite, Isoptera and then there are a couple of gall gnats, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae. This is a good piece. Scanned Image!
$15 SOLD	22. Difficult to say exactly what is in here, but it looks like an ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae and a wasp. Scanned Image!
$34	23. Unusual piece, there is a lot of organic debris that clouds the view. But you can see a caddis fly, Tripchoptera, a fungus gnat, Diptera Mycetophilidae and some very strange bubbles. Scanned Image!
$168	24. Cab shape to this amber. It is clear with that 3-D look to the inside. Very unusual. There is a rare isopod, Sphaeroniscidae. Isopods have 7 pairs of legs corresponding to the last seven thoracic segments. They dwell in damp environments such as river banks, or beaches, or tree stumps and humus. Scanned Image!
$82 SOLD	25. This has a very large caddisfly Trichoptera also a large ambrosia beetle, Coleoptera, Platypodidae and a fly, Diptera. There are some nice clear air bubbles along with a few of the normal surface glazing that occurs in amber. Scanned Image!
$89	26. Large cab shape with stress planes throughout. Contains an unusual grouping of animals. There is a click beetle, Coleoptera, Elateroidae, a flower (admittedly hard to see) and a spider. Scanned Image!
$37 SOLD	27. Here is a leaf. There is an isopod on the side along with a host of other things, a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae and a bunch of other difficult things to see. There is even the bottom half of a silverfish. Good price on this piece. Scanned Image!
$43 SOLD	28. Good piece with a caddis fly, Trichoptera and a nice spider. The amber is clear and things are easy to see. Scanned Image!
$37 SOLD	29. This is a small piece of amber. For the life of me, I do not know what is in it - my ignorance will be your gain. I would like to know what this is if you can ID it though. Scanned Image!

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