Dominican Amber Forest Association Piece

Description: This piece preserves a cross-section of the life found in the amber forest. We have a fine spider, a complete and a partial worker ant, as well as a stingless bee. Stingless bees are extant today. They gather resin, and presumably te ancestral ones did as well, likely leading to their entrapment in sap. They defend their hive not by stinging invaders, but by using their strong jaws.