Perfect Alate in Fossil Amber

Name: Amber Fossil Insects (Isoptera; Diptera; Coleoptera)

Age: Pleistocene to Pliocene

Size: mm (25.4mm=1 inch): 60 mm across; 18.4 grams

Location: Andes mountains in Colombia

Code: a362

Price: $110.00 - Sold


Perfect Alate in Fossil AmberUnusual are the specimens with such a stunning single inclusion. Beautifully centered with wings splayed as if in flight is an Alate, the sexual form of the termite. The perfectly centered Alate shares its resin tomb with 5 Dipterans and a cisid beetle.

Flying termites, or Alates, are the sexual form of termites which swarm from the colony in huge numbers to fly weakly to a new site to form another colony, where they soon shed their wings and set up housekeeping. Modern-day termites time the emergence of all colonies in a region to swamp the predators, giving at least a few the opportunity to found new colonies.


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