TerraTreasures and Adventures101 offer this authentic Dominican Amber gemstone

A super rare methane termite
beautifully preserved and beautifully displayed
in an authentic Dominican amber gemstone
This specimen has been examined by paleo entomologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
DR8316 Super Rare Methane Termite
$150.00 No Reserve

Termites have microbes in their gut that help digest the wood particles they eat. Methane is a byproductof the digestion process. Sometimes under the right circumstances we are lucky enough to come across a termite in amber that has this spectacular cloud of methane gas that has seeped out of it's body but not out of the resin, a very cool piece.Termites are common in Dominican amber, one can find winged adults, soldiers and workers or sometimes just the wings from adults who shed their wings after mating. A mature colony of termites can be underground, in mounds or in concealed cavities in trees and and can be composed of about 1 million individuals. Each colony produces from 5,000 to 25,000 winged adults each season. Most colonies have a single queen and a king but up to 33 queens and 17 kings can occur in a single nest. The nests are built of feces of semidigested plant material and soil and are enveloped by a thin layer of excreted lignaceous plant material. Associated with many worker termites in Dominican amber are six sided fecal pellets and variously shaped gas bubbles emerging from the termite's body. Such bubbles represent gases produced by the intestinal microbes of the termites, which continue to metabolize for some time after the termite has been enclosed in the resin.