Amber Stones For Sale with Insects, Bugs, and Blue Amber

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

Price	Specimen Description
$187	1. Rather good sized, about 1.5 inches in length and 16.5 grams in weight. This has a Bark Beetle, Coleoptera, family Scolytidae, genus Scolytus! There is also another scolytid off to the side. 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. There are also large amounts of organic debris in this piece, which I feel is probably waste droppings of the Bark Beetles. By the way, the one Bark Beetle is almost .25 inches in size! That makes it very easy to see. The amber has a tinge of red to it. Scanned Image!
$95	2. Good sized piece of Dominican amber with a bunch (dozen or so) of winged ants, Hymenoptera, Formicidae, (males out on the town) who flew into some resin 24 million years ago and have never left it. Scanned Image!
$65	3. Elongated cab shape piece of amber with a large male, winged ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. This guy has a nice shape to him. Scanned Image!
$229	4. 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!
$246	5. Big! This piece is a large chunk of amber. It is about 2 x 1.5 x .8 inches. What makes this special is the way it is polished. Both sides and an end are polished, but the other bits are not. What a cool effect. This is a very pleasing piece. Inside are a dozen or two scuttle flies, Diptera, Cyclorrapha: Phoridae. All of them must have come down in a swarm on to the sticky resin and never left. There also is a small Homoptera, Fulgoridae - a planthopper with it's wings spread. You can even see the wing pattern on it (which is way cool.) Finally there is a flat footed ambrosia beetle, Coleoptera, Platypodidae and a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae. Scanned Image!
$57	6. This is a beautiful piece. This does have an mature planthopper (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) which is partly obscured by 24 million year old air bubbles. None the less, it is easier to see than the picture's show. Scanned Image
$98 SOLD	7. Big piece, with one lone wasp, Hymenoptera. There is also a bubble within a bubble (enhydro). This is a cool piece because it is clear, large and has a single, small animal in it. Scanned Image!
$178	8. Ever since I was a little kid, I ants have held a fascination to me. Here are 2 great female, sterile worker ants, Hymenoptera. The one ant has a rather long abdomen! They must be two different species. There is also a nice fungus gnat Order Diptera, Family Mycetophilidae. All-in-all this specimen is about 1.5 inches long, flat on one side and shaped like a long tear drop. Scanned Image!
$179	9. There is a very large immature planthopper in the chunk. These are insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis and are in the Order Homoptera, family Fulgoroidea. They have distinctive ridges running down the front of the head and a few spines on their legs. At first glance it almost looks like a beetle because it is so large. There are a bunch of flies also in this honey. Scanned Image!
$437	10. What a piece! Perfectly clear with a very large planthopper , Order Homoptera, Superfamily, Fulgoroidea. This piece has the perfect shape and the perfect clarity. This planthopper is a hair larger than .25 inches! This is the type of specimen to cap off your collection. Scanned Image!
$58 SOLD	11. If you want a nice piece, but do not want to break the bank, look no further. Clear, cab shape with a single wasp near the center. Scanned Image!
$479 SOLD	12. Have you ever seen a millipede? Here is one that is 26 million years old. These are very rare and hard to find, Class Diplopoda. This one is perfect! You can see the body, segmentation and legs. Beautiful!. There is even a good sized spider off to the side. This spider has very long legs. Scanned Image!
$258	13. Here is another rare one, a weevil, Coleoptera, Superfamily Curculionoidea. The weevil looks a bit unusual for a weevil. The amber is large and clear, just a great piece. Needless to say, this is a type of beetle that feeds on plants maybe even in your cereal! There is a barklouse (Psocoptera) and 2 gnats along with numerous other very small insects. Here are some more. Scanned Image!
$88	14. Good sized piece of amber containing 3 winged ants, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. The piece is cab shaped with good yellow color. Scanned Image!
$127	15. I am not going to ID this beetle, I keep on vacillating when it comes down to a specific ID. Anyone want to take a guess? Good piece, the beetle is awash in a sea of 24 million year old air bubbles. Scanned Image!
$179	16. Hang on to your hats for this description. This is a female earwig, Dermaptera. Earwigs are rare in amber, and even rarer to see the complicated wing venation (which you can just see.) Even with this rare animal, there is a rare mite. Quite the piece. I think there was a Twilight Zone movie about earwigs................ Scanned Image!
$99	17. A very nice roach in this piece of amber. There is some good detail to see - Orthoptera, Blatteridae. Very interesting. Scanned Image!
$139 SOLD	18. This is a great piece. The amber is clear and the beetle is centered. This is an ambrosia beetle, sometimes called a platypodid beetle, Coleoptera, Platypodidae. Scanned Image!
$135 SOLD	19. Small, triangular piece of amber. The amber is very clear and has a perfect true bug in it. Quite impressive, you should enjoy these pictures. Not 100% sure, but I think this is a gnat bug, Enicocephalidae (rare). Scanned Image!
$227 SOLD	20. This is impressive . Order Thysanura, this is a beautiful Bristletail. The order Thysanura, in particular, may be a direct ancestor of winged insects. Bristletails are the most developed of the wingless insects. Scanned Image!
$650	21. The best is always last! Here us a Braconid wasp in the subfamily Doryctinae, which are parasitoids of wood boring insects (they also look just like ichneumonids). This is an amazing wasp This is a beautiful piece of amber with a wonderful and rare specimen. The size is about 2 inches by inch by 3 inches. Scanned Image!
$79	22. 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!
$4,200	23. You might feel that this is impossible, but here it is..........a very large millipede, Class Diplopoda. This is the finest example I have ever seen in amber, and probably ever will. The millipede is so large, I estimate its size to be about 1 inch in length! Here is a close up of its legs. The piece is filled with other stuff also. There appears to be a decayed branch next to the animal. There is a nice wasp, many gnats and a few flies, there is even a rare predaceous mite (I do not think this is a tick) - Acarina, suborder Cryptostigmata, Family Bdellidae. This mite, in and unto itself is rare and expensive! (I am not an expert in mites and ticks so I insert a disclaimer here about the family - it may not be Bdellidae) You just do not find millipedes like this, just unbelievable! Scanned Image!
$1,275	24. It seems like all the great stuff is at the bottom of this page! This is a very large adult planthopper Order Homoptera, Superfamily, Fulgoroidea. The wing structure is great, you can see the individual hairs! The details on this animal are particularly good. While the planthopper is large, so is the hunk of amber. The planthopper is about .25 inches x .25 inches (one wing is spread). The entire piece of amber is almost 2 inches x 1.5 x .5 inches. Of course there are the miscellaneous flies and gnats scattered around. There is a special plant in this one. It appears that this is a germinating Bryophyte! Very unusual to find this. The entire specimen is a plus for any serious amber collector. Scanned Image!
$910	25. If you like ticks and mites, then this tick is for you. It is really the best mite I have ever seen in amber. Large, easy to see and in good shape. In the family Caeculidae and in the genus Caeculus! These are called the Rake legged mites due to the spines on the front legs. I rather like these mites as they have good image character. Scanned Image!

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