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[Ron Buckley]

Its been a while since I have left communication on Burmite. The supply of specimens is always tight as usual. We have enough rough rough amber but it takes a lot of time and effort to obtain polished specimens. It is always exciting to find an insect in this material and something new is always popping up.. The other day I just came across a real nice earwig with intact spider webbing on its pinchers. So far we have found 2 mushrooms( one of which is a first in the fossil record), 3 feathers, a complete scorpian, a complete reptile foot,  2 possible snake skins, first weevil, nice ants, a lot of new strange looking flies, 6 flowers etc. What is really nice about Burmite is the great preservtion of the insects that is found. Thanks, Ron
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