What can you realistically find in burmite.
Looking for inclusions in a bunch of amber pieces.
Time stamps (please comment if you can help to ID inclusions):
0:15 centipede
1:34 biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Protoculicoides?)
1:57 beetle (Coleoptera)
3:00 plant leaves (conifer?)
4:30 Cretaceous cockroach nymph
5:14 fly (apystomyiid fly?)
6:12 moth
6:23 wasp bee
7:10 biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Protoculicoides?)
7:19 ant (Formicidae, Dolichoderinae
9:25 leafhopper/cicada larvae
In this video, we are presenting a small collection of burmite, a type of amber from Burma, also known as Kachin amber. It’s famous for a variety of inclusions, mostly insects. This particular amber was formed from resin of trees that grew in warm climates during the Cretaceous period, roughly 99 million years ago. The coniferous trees formed a forest near the coastline in estuaries of ancient rivers. I can imagine that, during tropical storms, winds would forcefully throw tiny bugs and molted skins onto the fresh resin oozing out of the branches and trunks, likely as a result of damages sustained during previous periods of violent weather. The sap would preserve whatever was getting in, including dust and pieces of plants, for an immensely long time until the hardworking miners of modern day Myanmar dug it out of deep pits, cut and smooth to reveal snapshots of ancient life.
The pieces you see were given to us by a generous subscriber. Even though the species may be not so rare, each inclusion is unique and, I believe, worth sharing. You will recognize a millipede, a moth, a spider, a cockroach nymph, and several types of beetles, mosquitoes, and flies. Many resemble those we can observe today, but some look unfamiliar.
The inclusions are very small. You can barely see anything with the naked eye, but it’s no less exciting to take the fragments of amber one by one and reveal their secrets under a magnifying glass. Thank you for joining our quest for discoveries today, please leave a comment, especially if you can ID the insects. Bye-bye till next time!
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