Fossil click beetle (Elateroidea), biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) and fungus gnat? ( Mycetophiloidea?), in a small block of amber-coloured Burmese amber, from the Cenomanian Age of the Noije Bum Amber Mine, Kachin State, Myanmar

Fossil biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) and gall midge (Cecidomyiidae), in a small block of amber-coloured Burmese amber, from the Cenomanian Age of the Noije Bum Amber Mine, Kachin State, Myanmar

Fossil leaf (Plantae), bug nymph (Hemiptera) and biting midge (Ceratopogonidae), in a piece of amber-coloured Burmese amber, from the Cenomanian Age of the Noije Bum Amber Mine, Kachin State, Myanmar

Fossil two biting midges (Ceratopogonidae), scuttle fly (Phoridae) and springtail (Collembola) in a yellow piece of Baltic amber, of Priabonian age, from the Baltic region

Fossil moth and caterpillar (Lepidoptera), two biting midges (Ceratopogonidae) and mite (Acariformes) in a piece of Dominican amber, of Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian) age, from the Dominican Republic

Fossil biting midge (Ceratopogonidae), leafhopper (Cicadellidae), scuttle fly (Phoridae), scavenger fly (Scatopsidae), spider (Araneae) and beetle (Coleoptera) in a piece of Dominican amber, of Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian) age, from the Dominican Republic

Fossil fly (Diptera: Calyptratae) and biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) in copal, treated to look like amber, of Quaternary age, from Madagascar