Large, Mushy Ugly Spider & More in Fossil Amber

Fossil Amber

Insects (Homoptera; Diptera; Coleoptera; Hymenoptera)

Spider (Arachnida, Araneae)

Geological Time: Pleistocene to Pliocene

Location: Andes Mountains in Colombia


This amber specimen contains one ugly and large spider, the mushy kind that makes your skin crawl. Before meeting its demise in an eternal resin grave, many meals were close at hand in the form of insects from four insect orders: including a planthopper (Homoptera), 3 ants (hymenoptera) a Cicid beetle (Coleoptera) and a Diptera.



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