Fossil flies (Diptera indet.) and mosquitoes (Culicidae indet.), in amber, from the Pliocene of 100 kilometres south of Mombasa, Kenya, Eastern Africa

Fossil flies (Diptera indet.) and mosquitoes (Culicidae indet.), in amber, from the Pliocene of 100 kilometres south of Mombasa, Kenya, Eastern Africa

Fossil mayfly (Ephemeroptera indet.) and fly (Diptera indet.), in amber, from the Upper Eocene to Lower Oligocene of Palanga, Lithuania

Two fossil ants (Formicidae indet.) and one fossil fly (Diptera indet.), in pale yellow transparent block of amber, locality unknown

Fossil fly (Diptera indet.), in golden-yellow transparent amber, from the Baltic States

Fossil fly (Diptera indet.), in golden-yellow transparent amber, from the Baltic States

Fossil fly (Diptera indet.), in golden-yellow transparent amber, from the Baltic States

Fossil fly (Diptera indet.), in golden-yellow transparent amber, from the Baltic States

Fossil fly maggot (Diptera: Brachycera) in a round amber-coloured piece of Mexican amber, of Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian) age from Simojovel, Chiapas State, Mexico

Fossil three planthoppers (Fulgoroidea) one large and two small, and a fly (Diptera) in an amber-coloured piece of Mexican amber, of Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian) age from Simojovel, Chiapas State, Mexico

Fossil fly (Diptera: Cyclorrapha), six gall midges (Lestremia) and two thrips (Thysanoptera) in an amber-coloured piece of Mexican amber, of Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian) age from Simojovel, Chiapas State, Mexico

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