Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

Antarctica’s only native insect, called Belgica antarctica, has adapted to survive in extreme cold temperatures, which could ...

How the Antarctic midge copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation, ...

The tiny flightless Antarctic midge has developed its own method of coping with freezing temperatures. The post Antartica’s ...

However, more will be needed if the plants get heavily infested. This midge lays about 100 eggs during its two-week lifetime. The tiny larvae feed on about five adults or 15 juvenile blackfly, during ...

If sitting around and staring at a hole in the ice doesn’t fit with your idea of fishing, take heart – there’s an open-water alternative even in the coldest part of the year.

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Previous management efforts In the past, the council has used various methods to manage midge numbers, including dredging the pond base to disrupt their lifecycle, altering water flow to make ...

Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey.

In this study, we compared the stress tolerance of the midge larvae collected from three populations. Additionally, we are comparing the molecular-level responses of these larvae from different ...