Introduction: Amber is known as the "space-time capsule", which exquisitely preserves the wonderful evolutionary fragments of organisms in geological history, and is one of the hotspots of paleontological research. The earliest record of Burmese amber is found in the Han Dynasty (205-265 AD), but the history of its contents is only about 100 years. Burmese amber was dated to the Mid-Cretaceous Cenomanian period, about 100 million years old (99 million years old).
The formation of worms
The formation of insects generally has three stages, the first stage is that after the resin drips down from the tree, sticks to the insect, the insect struggles and can not escape at the first time, is covered by the resin after the, wrapped, or the resin sticks to the insect, attracts other carnivorous insects, is then dripping or gushing resin wrapped, or the smell of the resin itself attracts the insect, wrapped by the dripping resin, various situations. The second stage is that the resin wrapped in the insect is buried deeply and petrochemicalized, and the composition, structure and characteristics of the resin have undergone obvious changes; the third stage is that the petrochemical resin wrapped in the insect is washed, transported, deposited and diagenetic to form insect persper.
True and false discrimination of Burmese worms
1. Naked eye observation of the perrin.
The body of the insect wraps around what variety of amber. Burmese amber categories are divided into brown red, golden palm, golden perch, tea perch, blood perper, peroper, root perch, etc., at present, the author has seen most of the Burmese worm perper body is brown red, golden palm, golden perch, golden perch, golden perper, blood perch wrapped insects are rare, not seen perpell wrapped insects. The texture, color depth, transparency, refractive index, etc. of the perch body will change with the change of viewing angle and illuminance. In addition to the golden perper, brown red, golden brown, golden blue perch, tea perch, blood perper, perper in indoor, outdoor natural light, sunlight, under the white bottom plate, under the black bottom board will show different color changes, this feeling is not available in any other substance.
2. Naked eye observation of the Perrine inclusions.
The inclusions of natural insects generally contain insects, insect stumps, plants, plant debris, bubbles, ice cracks, other impurities, etc., or two combinations, or three combinations, and so on. Of course, there are also very clean persites.
3. The phenomenon of stratification in the body.
When insects are wrapped in resin, some are wrapped by layer after layer of resin accumulation, each layer of resin wrapped in different substances, after the formation of amber, will retain such a layering phenomenon, such a layering phenomenon is mainly judged to be wrapped in insects, plants, plant debris and other phenomena.
4. Traces of struggle.
As mentioned above, in the process of the formation of insects, living insects will continue to struggle, in the process of struggle, some mouth organs will be missing, such as hemiptera, some insect antennae will be broken, such as cockroaches, and some foot retracements are broken, such as diptera. There are also different states, such as body curling, compound eye loss, wing folding, etc.
5. The color of insects
The formation of amber takes hundreds of millions of years, during which insects undergo a series of chemical changes: dehydration, discoloration and decomposition of internal tissues. According to the different bodies of the insect, there will be different colors, the insect as a whole will generally present red, brownish red, yellow, white, gray, gray and other different colors, but hymenoptera, a small number of "bee" insects will retain the color of the survival period, and even fewer will show "metallic color structure color".
6. Observe the basic characteristics of insects
After hundreds of millions of years of biological evolution and evolution, some of the basic characteristics of paleontology and modern insects are roughly similar, but they will also have different characteristics. Such as the feet of dipteran insects, the wings of the order pulsoptera, etc.
Collection of Burmese worms
First, why collect Burmese worms.
Burmese amber is one of the most famous Cretaceous ambers in the world and contains the richest known Cretaceous biota. The study of amber insects in Myanmar is of great significance to the understanding of the origin and early evolution of various groups of insects in the Mesozoic Era, taxonomic systematics, paleoecology and paleogeography. Myanmar worm perch is far undervalued in value compared to other producing areas.
Second, how to distinguish the value of Burmese insects
1. Proportion of Myanmar amber varieties
According to the author's current knowledge, Myanmar amber is produced at about ten tons per year, and entering the Chinese market is 3-5 tons. The proportion of insect perper is 2-3%, the proportion of plant perper is 1-1.5%, according to the calculation of 1-10 grams per insect per year, there are about 12-200,000 per year.
2. Proportion of insect perch in Myanmar
The brown and red perches in the Burmese insect perch account for about 65%, the golden palm and gold perch account for about 25%, and the other perch bodies account for about 10%. More than 90% of insects, insect stumps, plants, plant debris, bubbles, ice cracks, and other impurities account for more than 90%, of which 20-30% of insects are not very complete, and there are quite few insects that purify water. According to the number of quantities, from more to less, divided into a large number, a large number, a certain number, rare, rare, extremely rare, rare, rare, extremely rare nine levels of distinction, to diptera insects the largest number, diptera insects contain mosquitoes, midges, flies, flies, fly (according to the current domestic and foreign paleontological research institutes), accounting for 20-30%, that is, 3-7 million; followed by the number of Coleoptera insects, including beetles, fireflies, silverfish, etc., accounting for 10-15%; hemiptera insects, hymenoptera insects, hymenoptera insects, The number of isoptera insects is relatively close, hemiptera insects include aphids, cicadas, aphids, and mites, accounting for about 10%, hymenoptera insects include bees and ants, accounting for about 10%, isoptera insects are termites, accounting for about 10%; there are a certain number of insects for ticks, spiders, ticks, mites, mites, accounting for 5-8%, spiders for spiders, accounting for 5-8%; rare insects are horse land, jumping insects, cockroaches, cockroaches, straight-winged, tamarinds; very rare insects are centaurs, bicos, leather-winged orders Rare insects include lithophyllum, clothfish, plankton, hypoptera, pseudospipera, hairy winged order, and lepidoptera; extremely rare insects are blind arachnids, cracked shields, dragonflies, mantises, bamboo section insects, veined wings, long-winged orders, and snakeflies; rare insects are scorpions, arthropods, and spinopods; extremely rare insects are sophids, earthworms, claws, whips, mantises, broad-winged, twisted-winged, and fleas.
3. Collection of Burmese worms
Western countries such as Europe and the United States have long had the habit of collecting insects and perspers, and have certain collection standards. China's habit of collecting insects and persper in the past ten years or so, for how to determine the value of insect perper and collection, the understanding is not very clear, the author according to the importance of the collection from the following points to explain (the importance of 4-7 collections is not in order, can also be integrated):
1. The joint determination of the collecting community and the jewelry industry is that "things are rare and expensive". The number of insects is the main criterion for judging the value of the collection. As mentioned above, the collection value of rare orthoptera insects is always more collectible than that of larger dipteran insects. As far as the author knows, the ball elephant armor found and studied by paleontological research institutions such as Canada, China, and the United Kingdom is currently the only one in the world, and its collection value can be imagined. Another example is the flea, because most of its parasitic animals are large, not easy to be stuck, there are currently no more than 30 in the world, but because of the small size, the adult insects are miniature or small, often ignored by jewelers, enthusiasts, players, it is indeed very collectible.
2. Conventions follow customs. There is no reference to the standard of rarity, but according to the international amber market and the chinese amber market potential, commonly identified standards, or collectors, enthusiasts, consumers according to their own preferences and good meaning of the customs. As one of the "Three Treasures of Amber", the collection value of scorpions is much higher than that of the rarer whips, whips, etc. For example, compared with aphids, cicadas have many good meanings, and there are relatively few aphids and are not accepted by the public, although in the author's opinion, the number of aphids is less than that of cicadas.
3. Collect in the units of "head" and "section". Regardless of the rarity of the insects, the conventions, the size of the insects, whether the preservation is complete and clear, etc., the collection is carried out. For example, the collection of "mosquitoes", there are many kinds of mosquitoes, large mosquitoes, shake mosquitoes, mosquitoes, galls, fungal mosquitoes, eye mushrooms, pointed-eyed mushrooms, etc., after the collection of mosquitoes is more complete, collect midges, flies, complete the collection of "diptera" insects, and so on, collect other "order" and "family" insects. Of course, you can collect it at the same time. This is suitable for large and large numbers of insects.
4. Collect in the size of insects. The collection value of insects of the same species and large insects is certainly more collectible than that of small insects. It is worth reminding that the extremely rare flea order, insects are small, but the collection value is very high. Tick mite insects are small, and the ticks and mites after blood sucking preserve the blood of paleontologists in the Cretaceous period, which has high scientific research value in the future and also has a high collection value.
5. The integrity and clarity of insect preservation. Insects of the same species and size, the more complete and clearly preserved, the more collectible.
6, the size of the Body. The same variety, the same size, the integrity and clarity of preservation are roughly the same, and the larger the persper body, the more collectible it is. An ornamental amber insect is certainly more collectible than a pendant, and a pendant amber insect is more collectible than a ring.
7. The material of the persoleum. The persic body that wraps the insects includes gold perper, golden brown perch, brown red perch, blood perch, etc., but with the gold perper as the top, the perlion is crystal clear and the insect can be clearly visible.
8. Characteristic worms. Refers to a perdo worm, insect camouflage, predation, feeding, mating, egg laying, etc. A polypoda means that in the same piece of amber, there are multiple insects of the same species, or multiple varieties of insects, etc.
9. The clarity of the persoleum. The water purification of the perlature and the perky body close to the purified water are conducive to the observation of the details of insects. However, the author personally believes that with the collection value of worms getting higher and higher, the insects and persper counterfeiting technology will also be correspondingly improved, and the insects of clean water are conducive to counterfeiters and are not conducive to the healthy development of the domestic amber market.
In summary, the collection value of Burmese worms is far lower than that of the same category of worms in the international market, which is the time for the majority of collectors and players to start. As amber insects are recognized by the majority of collectors, players, and enthusiasts, the difficulty of collection will become more and more difficult, and the value of collection will become higher and higher. The size of the Burmese amber insect is generally 1-20mm, and it is necessary to use a magnifying glass to observe the details of the insect, determine the classification of the insect, and judge the rarity of the insect. The author believes that the collection standard judgment of insects and perches should be the main criterion for judging the rarity, and the convention can be used as an important criterion for judgment, and can also be collected by "order" and "family", and the size of insects, the size of the perter body, the material of the perter body, etc. can be used as auxiliary judgment criteria.
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