Trophy Fossil Amber - Spider Attack

This is a truly spectacular specimen capturing in an immortal suspension the most primal aspect of nature red in tooth and claw. A spectacularly well-preserved spider appears about to pounce on an equally well-preserved Homopteran. The cast of characters rounds out with several Diptera, a moth on the edge and a weevil (Order: Coleoptera).

The inclusions are contained in a 11.6 gram resinite grave that is 55 mm wide.

It is in amber that once animated insect life is most exquisitely captured, and particularly when the creatures are in diverse association, as exemplified in this specimen from the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Colombia. And, among amber's, those few pieces that contain many species that at once filled their respective environmental niches, and yet together interacted in the general environment are to me the most fascinating. This is such a specimen.