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This piece is unusual. It is a female worker ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae - but the mouth on this gal. I have not seen anything like it before. There is a gnat and another small ant, but the big ant is unusual.
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2. Clear piece of amber that contains a bark-gnawing beetle. Coleoptera, Ostomatidae. The beetle is nice sized.
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3. Orthoptera - this has an immature cricket.
He is in perfect shape, the amber is not large, but is perfectly
clear. This is a good piece.
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Cab shaped piece, clear with some surface stress points (do not detract). This piece has a male, eulophid wasp, Hymenoptera, Eulophidae.
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Contains a cricket, Orthoptera, a large curled female worker
ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae and a Psyllid. The amber is
a good shape with a nice color to it. Although the cricket
is not real easy to see, this is a good piece. It even has
a mass of stamens and a ball of fungus.
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Homoptera, super family Fulgoroidea,
an adult planthopper and also
a leaf beetle, Chrysomelidae,
Eumolpinae. Flattish piece
of good yellow amber.
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Cab shape piece of amber that contains a pseudoscorpion.
Pseudoscorpions are very uncommon in amber and seldom seen.
This one is on the side (complete specimen) making it difficult
to photograph. He is good though. This is probably the best
price you will ever see for one.
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8. There is a lot here. At least 4 small adult planthoppers, Homoptera, Fulgoridea along with what appears to be a termite wing (not sure) and a large moth.
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1
fly, Diptera
and a sterile, female worker
ant, Hymenoptera,
Formicidae among a sea of very old
bubbles (25 million years old).
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10. Unknown - I just am not sure what this one is. It is in great shape, the amber is a cab and very clear, but to ID it, I may get it wrong. For that reason I will just call it 'unknown'.
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11. An oblong, tear drop shape to this cab. This very clear piece has a single Isopod in it, Isopoda, Sphaeroniscidae. Very impressive piece.
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12. You will like this. A large and very easily
seen leaf which hides one of the largest
flies that I have seen (you can only see the posterior
portion. There are also some
unidentified body parts.
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13. You are in for a treat. This has the most
perfect
female webspinner I have ever seen. So much so, that we
feel there may be soft tissue enclosed (if you are interested
in DNA sequencing.) Webspinners are in the order
Embioptera. Webspinners have glands on
their front legs that emit silk to line their galleries
in debris under bark. They also build their colonies on lichens
and moss. When disturbed, webspinners feign death but
occasionally can move very rapidly, usually
running backwards. Webspinners are highly prized
and rarely found in amber.
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Long and thin piece of amber
that has a long-legged fly,
Diptera, Dolichopodidae and a small
thrip's. Best of all though is this contains a large
mite. In fact it looks like he is carrying
something (although we all know mites do not carry objects.)
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15. This is a rather good sized piece of amber. It is very clear and just off center is a nice (smallish) caddis fly, Trichoptera. I would consider this to be a very good piece - and a good price to boot.
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 16. This is a lovely piece. Clear with great color and a wonderful female worker ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. Once you see this one, you will fall in love with it.
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This cab has a
scuttle fly, Diptera, Phoridae and a
pseudoscorpion, Pseudoscorpionida,
on the side of
the amber. While
pseudoscorpions resemble scorpions they are
much smaller and do not have the stinger off the abdomen.
Pseudoscorpions are very rare in amber.
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Big -
58.6 grams. This really has a
lot inside. There is a lot of organic debris from the
forest floor. There are also a number of
crane flies and many, many
crane fly legs. Each time I look, I see something else.
There are
beetles and even
a flower (a nice one at that.)
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19. Impressive piece with a large planthopper, Homoptera, Fulgoridea and a leaf beetle, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae. There is also a parasitic wasp. The piece is clear and ready to go.
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20. Have you been looking for an impressive ant? This is it,
Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Camponotus. It is not a winged male.
The ant is large and easy to see (about 1/2 inch long.) The
amber is a beautiful yellow color and exceptionally clear.
This is a quality specimen. You will enjoy the pictures.
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Here is a nice large and clear piece. Scattered around inside are 3 female worker ants (sterile), Hymenoptera, Formicidae. This is a good piece and a lot of fun to look at the 24 million year old air bubbles.
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22. A lot of stuff is here. There is a great
fly, pretty good
sized where you can
see hairs. There is a gnat, and some other small midges
also an ant. The big thing here
is a millipede. A large
millipede. Now it is hazed by some air bubbles and 1/4
of the animal is cut off, but this is a very good specimen
- rare. You do not normally find millipedes in amber. The
very corner of the piece is not polished.
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Couple parts to this piece. First there is a beautiful planthopper,
Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, part of what appears to be a rolled
leaf and finally this even has a caddis fly, Trichoptera.
Good piece for a collection.
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Cab shape, the amber
is very clear and contains a lot of organic
debris. There are 2 large
female worker ants, Hymenoptera, Formicidae
(I wish I could ID them, they look very nice.) This is a
good piece. There is even a brave
pseudoscorpion who tried to hitch a ride on one of the
ants. There are more ants in the piece, but they are smaller.
My guess is that the two large ants have attacked a smaller
ant colony (you can see the smaller ones strewn around.)
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 25. Interesting insect in this amber. It is in the Order Psocoptera, family Philotarsidae. For the life of me, I do not think this has a common name.
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26. Tear drop shape to this unusual piece. It actually has
a square headed ant. These
are the ants that use their
heads to block intruders from the colony (what a job!). The
ant is large. Of course there is the obligatory missing leg
(with what looks like hemolymph
coming out). There is also part of another regular
ant
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27. This is a long and rectangular piece of amber. It is very clear and has a single immature planthopper, Homoptera, Fulgoridea just off center.
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Looks like about 6 wasps hanging around what might be the remains of a stem from a plant. I like pieces like this, easily seen, busy and fun to look at and it will not "break the bank".
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Lovely platypodid beetle, Coleoptera, Platypodidae. Easily seen in this piece of Dominican amber. Hard to wrong with this piece. The price is very good for this piece.
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Talk about large, this weighs 30
grams. Inside the amber
are a number of winged
termites. I would say that this is big enough to be considered
a swarm
of termites. There are lots of wings
all over. At the edge of the piece is
a cricket. It was difficult to photograph.
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