Maybe the Perfect Fossil Amber Pendant

Name: Amber Fossil Insects: (Isoptera; Coleoptera)

Age: Pleistocene to Pliocene

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): 60 by 15 by 5 mm; 4.6 grams

Location: Andes mountains in Colombia

Code: a406

Price: $115.00 - Sold


In this amber specimen there is a balance of delicacy, beauty and representation of nature hard to compare. This specimen exhibits extraordinary clarity, a golden amber shade, and captured within are insects from an ancient rainforest that appear to be frozen-in-time, because they are.

The specimen contains two Alates, the sexual form of the termite, as well as a reddish platypodid beetle, a member of a species that are often found congregating in mating rituals, nor to mention whose descendants are guilty of eating the bark of trees in Arizona and other places during modern times.

Flying termites, or Alates, are the sexual form of termites that 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.

It is hard to imagine the makings of a more beautiful pendant - spiral wire wrap, Please!


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