Fossil Amber Trophy: A Lady Bug Like Beetle
and Some Strange Company

Name: Fossil Amber Insects

Age: Pleistocene to Pliocene

Size: mm (25.4mm=1 inch): 62 mm long;

Location: Andes Mountains in Colombia

Code: a31

Price: $75 - Sold


There are three insects in this amber I do not recollect seeing before in amber. The one shown to the right strongly resembles a ladybug, a beetle (Order: Coleopteran). I've always considered the name "ladybug" to be a misnomer, since beetles insects are ferocious predators. Actually I believe it is a beetles colored similarly to a ladybug, perhaps an innovation of nature to ward off other predators of like size, but of hungry demeanor.

The 6th picture shows another beetle that is to me a mystery. It should be no mystery that there are many mystery beetles. During these modern times perhaps nothing but bacteria exceed Coleopteran diversity, since some 350,000 species of beetle are known (some 65,000 alone are weevils), and surely there are hundreds of thousands more to be discovered, especially in the rainforests.

The last two pictures show a beautiful winged insect that has all the earmarks of a cicada, though I am unaware of any so small. But surely it is a member of Order Homoptera, like the cicada.

This is a particular clear and richly colored specimen, a gem of a piece for your collection measuring 30 mm in length.


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