Dominican Amber
Item 1
We have recently come across a small collection of about 20 Dominican pendants in pure silver. Each one has a insect inside. They are nice, good sized and we can offer them to you at a great price. When you order one, we reach in and send you the one that we pulled out. I will identify the insect(s) inside it when we send it to you.
Item 2
The details of the fly are just outstanding. The mouth is very definitive - this is just a great specimen. This is a good sized fly in a beautiful piece of amber. The definitions on all parts of the fly are out of this world.
Item 3
Item 7
I love this piece. I get a kick out of looking at organic debris and air bubble without a microscope. This has everything. It even has a couple of worker termites, Isoptera to boot. A very fun piece - just think about the 'ancient air' that has been trapped for 24 million years.
Item 8
Very clear piece with a fat lauxaniid fly, Diptera, Lauxaniidae. There are a couple of midges, Chironomidae. There are a few surface cracks on this piece.
Item 9
An interesting pendant. 35 grams and about 2.5 x 1.5 inches in size. Lots of interesting forest floor debris inside, no insects, but what a 'looker'. And yes, the silver is 925 silver (pure, but non-tarnishing silver).
Item 10
Here is a pseudoscorpion. Pseudoscorpions are very small - this being no exception. They are very uncommon in amber and command the highest of prices. This one is at the edge of the small piece of very clear amber, and is complete. It does not show hardly at all on the scan. Since is a pseudoscorpion all by itself on this page - the price is VERY good for this specimen! The amber is a round cab shape.
Item 11
A small parasitic wasp, Hymenoptera and two really cool looking, collapsed air bubbles. Just think these bubbles contain air from 24 million years ago.
Item 12
This is an interesting piece. It contains an interesting crane fly. I am sure this is a crane fly, Tipulidae even though some of the body parts are distorted. There are a few flies, Diptera, Brachycera, with good details about them. One fly is near a plant part. This is a fun piece to look at under the microscope.
Item 13
I get a kick when I can see patterns on the wings - this one is great. the eyes are easy to see and the wings - oh the wings.............. This is a bark louse, Psocoptera, family Caccillidae (?).
SOLD
Item 15
Inside this amber is a gall midge, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae. The wings are unusual since they are darkened. I am assuming that the darkening is not real, but an artifactual in nature.
Item 16
Smallish, dark piece that contains a tropical stingless bee, Hymenoptera, family Meliponini, genus Proplebea, species, dominicana.
Item 17
A perfect piece with a centrally located tropical stingless bee. Stingless bees also know as meliponines are closely related to honey bees and bumblebees. The bee is in the Order Hymenoptera, Family Apidae:Meliponini, Genus Proplebeia and species, dominicana.
Item 18
A nice planthopper, Homptera, Cixiidae. These feed on plants and cause damage by sucking their juices or cutting leaves for storing their eggs. There is a large springtail, Collembola at the anterior end of the planthopper.
Item 19
Clear piece that has a gall midge, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae - that is the smaller animal, the larger is probably a fly. A very small part has chipped of giving an edge and rough appearance.
Item 20
Nice cricket, Orthoptera and 2 others - an unknown beetle and unknown Dipteran. Nice sized piece of amber, good for someone's collection.
Scanned Image!
Item 21
This piece has a male, winged ant at the side, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. Good details on the ant.
SOLD
Item 22
Here you will find a winged termite in all it's glory. There is even another pair of wings next to the unlucky fellow who died 24 million years ago.
Item 23
A very clear cabochon with a single, well preserved true midge, family Chironomidae. I think this is a male gnat - good details on him.
$28
Item 24
Great piece that is 'about' 2 x 2 x 1 inches. This shows a worker termite, Isoptera with gas bubbles very well. Even have a movie of this piece. It is good.
Item 25
I love pieces like this. There is a small gnat, nothing big......... but when you look around you can see the remains of a spider web. Very cool.
Item 26
I am not sure where to start when I describe this specimen. It has 2 honey bees. As you may know stingless bee's in Dominican amber are not uncommon, honey bees are so rare - I have only seen one other in my lifetime. There is also a beetle - but with 2 honey bees, the beetle is not the attraction. I do not know about honey bees since I have only seen one - maybe this is a new species - not an outlandish idea. For the right person, this would be the highlight of one's collection. This is a rare specimen!
Item 27
Pretty sure this is a phantom midge, Diptera, Chaoboridae. In fact there are 3 of them in the piece. I have not seen these before.
Item 28
Here is a very large piece of amber, 21.6 grams, mostly polished, but two sides are not (makes it look better). There is what looks like a stick going through the dark amber and this also has 3 worker termites scattered in the fossilized resin. Cool piece, good sized.
Scanned Image!
Item 29
This is one that reminds me of the 'Stay Puff Marsh Mellow Man". It has a nice worker termite in it. In the intestines of termites are many bacteria and protozoans. When the animal becomes stuck in the resin and dies, the micro biome still lives for a while and emits carbon dioxide - which you can see the resulting bubbles around the animal. This particular piece even has a moving air bubble which means that there is probably water inside - 20 million year old water. This is a fun piece.
Item 30
Nice sized piece of amber. Inside (and it is the only thing) is a tropical stingless bee, Hymenoptera, Family, Apidae:Meliponini, Genus, Proplebeia, species, dominicana.
