Cold Temperatures for an Insect . Like hibernating bears, many insects slow their bodily processes during the tough winter ...

Instead, they enter obligatory diapause, a natural dormancy phase in their life cycle. The Antarctic midge is the only known insect native to Antarctica. (photo credit: Yuta Shimizu / Osaka ...

If a tiny, flightless midge establishes itself on mainland Antarctica, it could unleash outsized changes on the continent’s biodiversity, researchers from the University of Birmingham and British ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called Belgica antarctica manages to live in the freezing continent by essentially ...

The Antarctic midge is the only known insect native to Antarctica. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this paper only.

Flightless Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) is the only known insect native to Antarctica that is able to survive the extreme climate. Researchers have uncovered a part of the mystery of how ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that somehow survives the extreme climate. How the Antarctic ...