Dominican Spiders
Item 1
A lovely piece that has a small spider and a beautiful tumbling flower beetle, Coleoptera, Mordellidae.
Item 3
If this does not catch your eye, nothing will. You may recognize this as a tailless whip scorpion. The whip scorpion is one of the rarest of all finds. Tail-less whip scorpions or amblypigids are very efficient predators. They remain hidden under leaves, bark and other debris for most of the day. They come out at night to feed. Their chelicerae are modified into strong, spine-armored grasping organs that the hapless arthropods would find nearly inescapable. Their front pair of legs, in contrast, are long and slender, obviously modified for sensory functions. Lacking any type of tail appendage, these formidable creatures are not frequently encountered. The females carry their eggs in a sac attached to the undersurface of the abdomen by a few silken threads.
Now here is the kicker on this, we paid a good price on this and now offer the equivalent good price to you. By the way, we do understand that this is not a spider........
Item 5
A large, clear piece of Dominican amber. It is a beautiful piece with a lot inside. There are 3 small spiders, a few immature planthoppers, a fly, Nematoda, and more. All the animals are small.
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Item 6
The cab is beautiful, good sized, great color and very clear. The spider is very small, thus the super price on this one.
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Item 7
Just a magnificent piece of amber. The spider is large and the amber is particularly clear. This would look great as a pendant. It is really a fine specimen.
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Item 9
Large piece of amber. This has a medium sized spider near the center of the amber. Interesting to note, that when the light is right, you can actually see some of the spider web across the piece, cool. The size is about 2.3 x 1.5 x .5 inches.
Item 10
ery clear with a good sized spider at one end. This piece is fairly thin and flat - which is what you want. This would look great in a gold wrap.
The long straight lines near the spider are probably crane fly legs. The long legs of crane flies often break off when they land in the sticky resin.
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Item 11
A very large cab. It is about 1.25 x 1 x .3 inches. Very clear with a single beautiful male spider near the center at the top of the cab. A fine specimen for anyone's collection. Quality stuff.
Item 13
This piece has a great shape to it. You could easily make this into a pendant. The piece is large. Near the center is small to medium sized spider. Very nice amber and very clear. By the way, there is also a fly near the spider, Diptera, Brachycera.
Item 14
I love pieces that have big specimens in them. This is not huge, but I do consider it big. Large, easy to see and just plain cool, you will love this piece. On the other side of the spider is a 'gaggle' of springtails, Collembola. Also, there is a single true midge, Diptera, Chironomidae, and an immature planthopper.
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Item 15
Interesting piece, not particularly large, but the spider is. Missing a few legs, this spider is easily seen.
Item 16
This is a beautiful cab. Big, large and clear. The spider is centrally located, it is small. It also has a small black scavenger fly, Diptera, Scatopsidae at one end. Very attractive piece.
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Item 17
The shape and size of this piece is rather good. The spider is easily seen at the lower end of the specimen. There is even another, small, spider at the edge of the piece. The entire piece has a reddish tint to it. This will make a wonderful pendant.
Finally, there are a number of other gnats and midges scattered all over the piece. The other animals (not the spider) need a microscope to see well.
Item 18
Big piece with a lot inside. It has a visible spider and a bunch of other animals like a barklouse, Psocoptera, Caeciliidae, even an immature planthopper. This will keep you busy for a while.
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Item 20
Big - real big. There is a zoo inside this monster. It weighs 69 grams and is about 3.5 x 2.5 x 1 inchs of irregular shape. It seemed like every time I looked at it, a new animal would show. Maybe 7 spiders, (by the way, most things are small) a cricket (with very good detail, a roach, gall gnat, Cecidomyiidae - actually two of them. There are more also. One of the animals I am calling a spider may be a mite. Quite the piece.
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Item 22
Nice and clear cab shaped piece with a small spider, off center. I love the color and clarity of the amber. Good piece at a great price.
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Item 23
There is a lot here. Almost like a zoo. There is a small male spider that looks like it is chasing a fly, Diptera, Brachycera. Also, a thrip, Thysanoptera, a punky, Ceratopogonidae, 1 large planthopper with wings spread, 2 true midges, Chironomidae, an unusual female worker ant, an immature planthopper and a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae (I thhttps://www.ambericawest.com/images/spiders/ink). I suspect there is more, but I give up.
Item 24
There is something about spider webs that I find exciting. This huge piece of amber has a long of spiders webs inside. Ever wondered how animals get stuck in spider webs, look though these pictures and you will see the sticky goo on the webs. The is a winged termite, Isoptera, some wasps, in fact one with a very strange abdomen, it looks bloated - but the spider webs are cool (of course the spider is here also.) Finally there is a very small immature planthopper. Did I mention there is a larval case of a timeid moth? This type of larvae is often found on damp basement and garage walls, moving very slowly. Very rare in amber.
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Item 25
Item 26
Great for someone's
collection who wants a spider but does not want to spend a lot. This is a
nice cab, the spider is small and does require magnification - but it is a
good piece.
Item 27
This clear piece of amber shows the traditional
amber flow lines from successive resin flows. It has
one spider.
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Item 29
This is a beauty. You can see the layers of each resin flow in this piece. There is 1 spider that got caught in one of the many layers of resin flows.
Item 30
Spider on the edge, along with many, many legs from a bunch of crane flies, Tipulidae. There is also a sap beetle, Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, some gnats, a caddis fly, 2 moth flys, and 2 flat footed beetles, Coleoptera, Platypodidae. In fact there are two spiders here.
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Item 31
Cab shape with a centrally located spider. This is the perfect piece for a collection since the spider is visible, the amber is clear and the shape is good.
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Item 32
A lovely small cab with a perfect spider. The details are good, it is just that you may need a magnifier to see it properly.
Item 33
Large chunk of amber. This one is loaded with animals. The spider is large and found at the top. There is a worker termite, rather transparent, a fly, a gall gnat, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, a small, but interesting weevil. The weevil appears to have a mite on the ventral side (very unusual). There is a twisted leaf and even some other unknowns.
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Item 34
Elongated cab shape (sort of) amber with organic debris and a few unidentified smaller animals. There is a nice spider here also.
