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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	The itsy bitsy spider.. Jun 1^st, 2020 at 12:30pm	Print Post
	Literally! This lil guy is only 1.5 mm from the highest tip to lowest bend. Burmite amber, 99 MYO @ 90 x magnification. Not looking too shabby for being close to 100 million years old. At least I think it's a spider. Only 6 very long legs.

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Dennis Senior Member Offline Beryl is good! Posts: 358 Location: Morganton, NC Joined: Oct 2^nd, 2010 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #1 - Jun 1^st, 2020 at 5:06pm	Print Post
	It looks like a long legged spider ant similar to those found in Australia today. Good spotting. Dennis


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #2 - Jun 1^st, 2020 at 9:36pm	Print Post
	Good spotting is right! And great picture. Nice little guy/gal. Thanks for the picture. I am very interested in how you think the Burmese amber works and polishes? Compared to the Indonesian? If there is a comparison?


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #3 - Jun 1^st, 2020 at 11:49pm	Print Post
	JoeM wrote on Jun 1^st, 2020 at 9:36pm: I am very interested in how you think the Burmese amber works and polishes? Compared to the Indonesian? If there is a comparison? Aside from the fact's that it's a tad more expensive and a few years older, it's also a bit harder & much clearer. It polishes up very nicely with a little more effort than the Indonesian takes. Unfortunately, I don't have any rough to compare with. This is all miner polished (about 1/2 polished after being ground down). I like it. With it being as clear as it is, it makes finding inclusions much easier.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #4 - Jun 5^th, 2020 at 11:21am	Print Post
	Turns out, it isn't a spider OR an ant. What it is, is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethiocarenus A rare lil bug. Combined with somewhere around a dozen or more enhydros in the same piece, means it's worth a few pennies.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #5 - Jun 6^th, 2020 at 8:42am	Print Post
	Wow, good catch, dave! This little guy/girl is a real loner. Only species of the genus! Sounds very ALIENopterus to me.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #6 - Jun 6^th, 2020 at 9:17am	Print Post
	JoeM wrote on Jun 6^th, 2020 at 8:42am: Sounds very ALIENopterus to me. Yeah.. my own real (not so) live alien. Just wish I could get better pics of it.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #7 - Jun 7^th, 2020 at 10:45pm	Print Post
	Oh yeah, Joe. Another thing about the burmite is it doesn't have the pine smell of the Indonesian or Baltic (from what I hear). Because of the tree it came from, it smells more like kerosene.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #8 - Nov 19^th, 2020 at 2:26pm	Print Post
	After carefully working on this piece of amber, I finally got a better pic of the "aliens" head. The piece was just over 1 cm thick and of course the bug was almost dead center. So with hand held diamond files having only 3 speeds (slow, med & oh great, another notch in my fingernail), it was slow going. Lots of starts and stops. But I finally got a view that was worth it.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The itsy bitsy spider.. Reply #9 - Nov 21^st, 2020 at 10:34am	Print Post
	Good work and great picture, dave! Thanks!


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