Authentic Dominican Amber Fossil
Very Rare Mating Scene - Formicidae Pseudomyrmecinae
Amber Piece is Actually a Amazing Menagerie with a lot of other inclusions to investigate, Homoptera´s, Diptera´s, Flower....and more
Very Interesting Piece
44,3 x 38,4 x 20,1mm - 16,5g

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Authentic Dominican Amber Fossil
Two Male Dark Winged Fungus Gnats (Diptera Sciaridae) attempting to mate
Homosexual behavior has been documented in a wide range of insects and spiders but the evolutionary causes are not well understood.
A Baltic Amber stone with two male midges (Diptera Chironomidae) in the same attitude was illustrated by A.J. Boucot and G. Poinar in “Fossil Behavior Compendium”, CRC Press,2010, pag.150, fig. 188. According to the Authors “When a female midge enters a male mating swarm, males sometimes become confused and attempt to mate with each other.”
Exceptional Highly Collectible Specimen
Complete Inclusions very well centered - Crystal Clear & Solid Amber Piece - Totally Covered by the Amber
22.2 x 14.9 x 9.1mm - 9.39Ct

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Genuine Dominican Amber Fossil
Rare Behavior Scene
Mating Black Scavenger Flies
Inclusion Totally Covered by the Amber
Crystal Clear & Solid Amber Piece
Very High Quality Specimen
25.1 x 18.5 x 10.3mm - 2.708g

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Museum Quality Specimen
Live Like Mating Queen Ant
Worth to be displayed in a World Class Museum

In warm days of late spring and early summer virgin queens and winged male ants leave the nest in massive swarms called nuptial flights searching out a mate from another colony.
After mating, queen ants loose their wings and try to find a suitable home to dig a new colony. They lay eggs which produce the first brood of offspring.
The first larvae later become the sterile female workers.
Winged males, called drones, who are much smaller than the queens, die shortly after mating.
This is a museum quality specimen in perfect condition.
This mating ants, belonging to the subfamily formicinae, were trapped about 20 million years ago by a drop of resin of the algarrobo tree.
So far this is the second Specimen of this category, this one is actually from far the nicest one.

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