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 2
Very clear piece of Baltic amber with a cylindrical bark beetle (I think): Coleoptera, Colydiidae.
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Item 4
Small piece with a mite, Acarina, family Ixodidae. Small layer change makes it difficult to photograph.
Item 5
Interesting wings on this barklice, Pscoptera. There is also a very small spider in this piece of Baltic amber.
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Item 7
Small, very clear piece with a dance fly, Diptera, Brachycera:Empididae off on one edge of the piece.
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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 9
Here is a black fly, Diptera, Nematocera:Simulidae. The Simulidae, black flies, are small flies whose females require a blood meal for egg production.
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Item 10
Item 11
Nice piece of amber with a good example of a Nematoceran. In fact, there are 3 of them inside this piece.
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Item 12
Nice piece with a great example of a long legged fly, Diptera, Dolichopodidae. Good eye detail.
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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
A small piece of amber with a good looking long legged fly, Diptera, Brachycera:Dolichopodidae.
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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 18
Interesting piece, this has a female worker ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. There is also a bdellid mite, Acarina, Bdellidae.
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
Fairly large, very clear piece of amber with a single, small fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae.
