Description
This is an auction for A Superb Bombyliid Fly exquisitely preserved and beautifully displayed in an authentic Dominican Amber Gemstone. This specimen has been examined by paleoentomologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This specimen was collected in the La Toca group of mines in late spring of 2005. This is only the second Bombyliid Fly we have ever seen in Dominican amber. This specimen is worthy of any museum's collection.

From Poinar ..."Bombyliidae (bee flies) Because of their robust shape, hairy body, and habit of visiting flowers, these flies are often confused with bees. The adults often possess a long proboscis for obtaining nectar and can dart rapidly from plant to plant. the larvae are parasitic on various stages of other insects. ... most descriptions are from Baltic amber material. To date a single species has been indentified from Dominican amber."

From Weitschat ..."The Bombyliidae or bee flies are represented in Baltic amber by the Bombyliinae, Cyrotosiinae, and Cylleniinae. These groups are also the oldest fossil records of the Bombyliidae."

We acquire our amber specimens directly at the amber mines from the amber miners and the mine owners. Our amber specimens do not go through any middle men, we are able to examine and obtain specimens that only a handful of people have ever seen sometimes only the miner who chiseled out the specimen. This allows us to find and obtain beautiful display specimens that would otherwise be winnowed out by amber middlemen and forwarded on to museums and collectors around the world.

This beautiful authentic Dominican Amber gemstone is offered here for $950.00 - complete satisfaction guaranteed, if you are not satisfied with your purchase you can return any specimen within 30 days for a full refund.

Shipping and Insurance
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About Us
To view more photos of us collecting amber in the field in the Alaskan Tundra, North Carolina, Wyoming, New Jersey, the western Aleutians and the Dominican Republic visit our 'About Us' page by clicking on the following link http://www.terratreasures.com/us/us.html.
We have been collecting amber in the field and prepping rough fossil amber specimens since 1993. Photographs of our specimens have appeared in National Geographic, Nature, Science, Scientific American, Discover, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and others. We have been featured in PaleoWorld's The Amber Hunters. We offer authentic museum quality Dominican Amber display specimens of rare insects in amber and also authentic rare Dominican rough unprepared amber for sale. Our collections include museum quality rare insects in amber, unusual botanicals and flowers in amber and also rough unprepared Dominican Amber gemstones. We have traveled many times to the Dominican Republic where we have chiseled beautiful amber gemstones out of the lignite layers deep in the amber mines north of Santiago. We have excavated in the Palo Quemado and Los CaCaos blue amber mines and also in La Nueva Toca and the world famous La Toca amber mines way up in the mountains north of Santiago. For many years we have extensively collected mid Cretaceous New Jersey amber in the Raritan formation of central New Jersey and have traveled many times to collect late Cretaceous and early Paleocene amber in the Hanna formation of eastern Wyoming. We have collected mid Cretaceous amber in the Black Creek formation of eastern North Carolina and we have spent weeks collecting mid Cretaceous amber in the northern most Tundra of Alaska. Our last collecting trips have been in October of 2003 to the western Aleutian Islands some 1000 miles west of Anchorage to explore and collect Miocene amber, December of 2003 we were back in the Dominican Republic to collect Miocene amber from the Palo Quemado amber mines which have recently closed due to the miners finding little amber, and most recently we were back to the Dominican Republic in August of 2004 to collect in the La Cumbre and Palo Quemado group of amber mines. We have donated many hundreds of amber specimens to museums in the United States and have several dozen new species of insects in amber named after us. We have examined several thousand specimens of rough Burmese amber and have prepped many new Burmese fossil amber specimens. We have traveled to Europe with colleagues to examine unusual spectacular Dominican Amber specimens in private collections and we consider the amber curators of the museums in Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata and New York City our friends. Exploring for and collecting amber along with the examination and research of amber is our passion.
To view photos and videos of our some of our amber excavations in the amber mines in mountains of the Dominican Republic and to see a small java applet of the amber mines click here - (opens in a new browser window). Our amber comes direct from the Dominican Republic amber mines east of the world famous La Toca amber mine. These specimens do not go through any middle men, we acquire these specimens from the miners and mine owners directly at the amber mines.