Baltic Amber page 3
NOTE: This page has less "flashy" pieces and is more suited to smaller identified specimens. Prices are less on this page since the speciments are generally smaller and best suited as an addition to a collection. Make sure that you look at the "Scanned Image" so that the pictures are not misleading.
Item 1
This has a roach, Blattidae that is covered with a bit of fungus. Also there are 4 small mites scattered around.
Item 2
This has a rove beetle, Coleoptera, Staphylinoidea - or maybe it is an ant-like stone beetle (not sure).
Item 4
Small piece with a mite, Acarina, family Ixodidae. Small layer change makes it difficult to photograph.
Item 7
I like this one - not because it has an unknown Dipteran, but there is part of a spider's web going through it - cool.
Item 8
There is something cool about seeing parts of a plant in a piece of amber that is 40 million years old. This looks like an herbaceous stem?
Item 11
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Item 13
A very large coprolite. This is probably only a segment of the coprolite, but it shows some good detail.
Item 14
About a third of an inch on a side and 1/8 inch deep. This also has a slender springtail, Collembola, Entomobryidae.
Item 15
Item 16
This picture is rather like "here's look'in at you kid". The Phoridae are a family of small, hump-backed flies resembling fruit flies.
Item 17
Not 100% sure on this one. Looks like a caddisfly, Trichoptera, but the tail appendages do not match.
Item 18
Interesting piece, this has a female worker ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. There is also a bdellid mite, Acarina, Bdellidae.
Item 21
Sometimes I will give an educated guess, not this time, just do not know. There are some coprolites though.
Item 22
A psylloid. Psylloidea, Homoptera, is a superfamily of true bugs, including the jumping plant lice and others which have recently been classified as distinct families.
Item 23
There is a lot here. 2 mites, 1 beetle mite (Oribatidae) and a long legged fly, Diptera, Brachycera, Dolichopodidae.
Item 26
Interesting piece. There is a aphid larvae (Aphidoidea) genus Germaraphis sp. and also a 1st instar mite.
