Item Tag: Insects

Locality: Hukong Valley, Myanmar (Burma) Size (mm): 25×12 Notes: Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been valued since ancient times. It is found in a variety of colors, ranging from light honey colored Baltic amber, to deeper orange tones, red, brown, and the prized Dominican blue amber. It can also come in opaque tones such as butterscotch and even black. In order for ancient tree resin to become amber, it must be protected from decay long enough to undergo a process known as molecular polymerization. These conditions were present when the resin was covered with sediment that protected it from the elements, while providing the high pressure and heat needed to polymerize the molecules. Fast forward to the present, and the amber is mined, polished, and used for jewelry and decorations in addition to scientific research. Due to the sticky nature of tree resin, insects, debris, and organic matter were often trapped before the resin hardened. The resulting fossil inclusions in amber are the most spectacularly preserved fossils in the entire fossil record. Soft tissue preservation is rarely seen in the rest of the fossil record, but commonplace in amber. The result is a biodiversity and look into ancient ecosystems that is unparalleled. Every piece of amber we sell is guaranteed genuine. Please visit our store for a wide selection of rare and well preserved amber specimens from around the world.

Locality: Hukong Valley, Myanmar (Burma) Size (mm): 15×13 Notes: Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been valued since ancient times. It is found in a variety of colors, ranging from light honey colored Baltic amber, to deeper orange tones, red, brown, and the prized Dominican blue amber. It can also come in opaque tones such as butterscotch and even black. In order for ancient tree resin to become amber, it must be protected from decay long enough to undergo a process known as molecular polymerization. These conditions were present when the resin was covered with sediment that protected it from the elements, while providing the high pressure and heat needed to polymerize the molecules. Fast forward to the present, and the amber is mined, polished, and used for jewelry and decorations in addition to scientific research. Due to the sticky nature of tree resin, insects, debris, and organic matter were often trapped before the resin hardened. The resulting fossil inclusions in amber are the most spectacularly preserved fossils in the entire fossil record. Soft tissue preservation is rarely seen in the rest of the fossil record, but commonplace in amber. The result is a biodiversity and look into ancient ecosystems that is unparalleled. Every piece of amber we sell is guaranteed genuine. Please visit our store for a wide selection of rare and well preserved amber specimens from around the world.

WE SHIP SUPER FAST!!!! Please read further down for Express Shipping information. You get at least 100 beautiful dead bugs (I always send extra!), in alcohol, collected in Oklahoma. Your dead bug collection will include a cicada, large and small flies, wasps and bees, beetles of small, medium and large size and different colors, true bugs and leafhoppers, ants, a cockroach (when available), a mayfly, and a grasshopper, katydid or cricket. I’ve been collecting all summer and I have a huge variety of showy and common insects. You will get at least 13 orders, and most or all of your specimens will belong to separate families- enough variety to satisfy any school requirement. You will also get some of the following: lacewings, owlflies, termites, fleas, earwigs, and a variety of other of the smaller orders. These are all common insects and a guide sheet with color illustrations will be included to make identification a matter of matching the insect with the picture. If there’s anything else you need in your collection and you don’t see it listed here, let me know and I will see if I can add it to your collection. I have the BEST bugs!!! Please note that EXPRESS SHIPPING is NOT necessarily overnight shipping; it depends on where you live. You can find out how long Express Shipping will take to get to you by going to the US Postal Service website and putting in your Zip code, and ours, which is 74058. Our local postal truck leaves at 4:30pm. We always combine shipping when you buy more than 1 item from us!