Tractor Beam, 2018, digital media, 30 x 24 in. / 76.2 x 60.96 cm.

Tractor Beam, Guy Iannuzzi, 2018, digital media, 30 x 24 in. / 76.2 x 60.96 cm.

I have been photographing insects embedded in amber for decades. This springtale (Collemboia) is in Dominican Amber from the Miocene – 5 to 23 million years old. Springtales are no longer considered insects, but hexopods, with an abdominal, tail-like appendage that "springs" them into the air.